MedPEP
The first season of MedPEP, the Medical Professionals Empowerment Program, stars Dr. Marie Curious, a physician, physician's wife and mother of toddlers, who is attempting to douse the flames of physician burnout. Listen as Marie and her guide, Dr. Les Schwab, interact with experts with the wisdom and experience to help anyone who is overwhelmed by the stresses and pressures of a nearly impossible job. After you have listened, take our free CME: https://www.medpep.org/cme
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September 25, 2018
This is the 20th and final episode of the first season of MedPEP. Along with the first and eighth episodes, this is one of three episodes in which Marie and Les engage in a two-way conversation without a guest expert. Their two-way exchanges, relative to the more didactic three-way conversations, are particularly personal and heartfelt. In this final episode, they review Marie’s MedPEP journey, which commenced with a focus on the “...
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September 18, 2018
At the beginning of this episode, Marie acknowledges to Les that she is continuing to mull over Dr. Green’s paradoxical suggestion (episode 18) that one way to overcome a sense of powerlessness is to embrace it. In today’s discussion with Dr. Liebschutz, they consider the possibility that some physicians may be able to overcome their sense of being overwhelmed and downtrodden by actually taking on more. Dr. Liebschutz, an accomplis...
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September 11, 2018
Every practicing physician has had the experience of feeling powerless in the face of patient expectations that come across as overblown or unrealistic. Addiction psychiatrist Mark Green, MD, shares with Drs. Curious and Schwab that an effective strategy for managing such expectations is for the health professional to join with the patient by acknowledging their shared experience of powerlessness. In this episode, Dr. Green reflect...
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September 4, 2018
Dr. Steve Adelman, founder of MedPEP and director of the physician health
program in Massachusetts, has a frank discussion with Marie and Les about
physicians’ use of addictive substances like alcohol and marijuana. In this
era of stress, burnout, and medical “battle fatigue,” doctors may be
especially susceptible to numbing themselves with substances that have the
potential to impede their performance. Steve’s perspectiv...
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Dr. Marie Curious and MedPEP host Dr. Schwab have a rich and engaging
conversation on the doctor-patient relationship with primary care physician
and writer Dr. Danielle Ofri. The discussion contains numerous clinical
pearls, some of which are drawn from Dr. Ofri’s experiences learning to
play the cello as an adult. She reflects on her own frustrations with
electronic medical records in a way that steers Marie in the dire...
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Dr. Jeffrey Auerbach is a psychologist, coach, and author who has coached
health care executives, physicians, and physician leaders for more than 20
years. This episode focuses on the complexities of emotional intelligence
(EI). Jeff explains to Marie and Les that there are four broad domains of
EI: (1) knowing yourself, (2) managing yourself, (3) understanding other
people, and (4) being able to effectively and sensitive...
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After learning about the causes of burnout, how to cope with it, and how to
convey one’s concerns to the higher-ups in an organization, Marie meets Dr.
Helen Riess, a practicing psychiatrist who directs the empathy research
program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Helen believes that the rigors
and pressures of medical education, training and practice deplete
physicians of their natural ability to empathize and connect ...
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The stresses and strains of medical practice burned out Dr. Diane Shannon
to the point where she left clinical practice and reinvented herself as a
medical writer. She shares her moving, cautionary tale with Marie Curious,
explaining to her that medical practice was not what she had expected it to
be. She found it to be so chaotic and stressful that it was taking a
serious toll on her physical and emotional health. It als...
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Marie meets with Dr. Paul DeChant, a former family medicine physician and
CEO who now works as a health care management consultant. As a medical
leader at the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, Paul successfully led a
system-wide transformation that enhanced clinician well-being and restored
joy in caring for patients. Paul is the lead author of Preventing
Physician Burnout which focuses on the use of Toyota Lean principles...
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July 24, 2018
Following up on her conversation with Marie on conflict management, a
second conversation with Dr. Jo Shapiro focuses on her hospital’s model
peer-support program. There, clinicians facing emotionally stressful
situations such as safety events, trauma and traumatic losses, malpractice
suits, and medical board complaints are offered the opportunity to meet
with trained peers, who help them to express and normalize the comp...
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July 17, 2018
Marie and professionalism expert Jo Shapiro, MD, have a deep conversation
about resolving interpersonal conflicts that come up on medical teams and
at different levels of health care organizations. Dr. Shapiro, a surgeon at
the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, directs the Center for Professionalism
and Peer Support there. She believes that conflict in medical settings is
inevitable and may be healthy when it allows for a res...
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July 10, 2018
Psychologist and Coach Alan Morse focuses on assessing and addressing
physicians’ problems from individual, team, and organizational
perspectives. He suggests that the same analytical skills that physicians
utilize to assess patients’ conditions may be applied to one’s self and
one’s practice. Understanding organizational culture is a must, and
solutions should be viewed through the lens of the team. Hierarchical
differ...
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Les and Marie take stock of their first 6 conversations with well-being
experts, and they reflect on Marie’s ability to effectively incorporate the
torrent of new information, skills and techniques into the everyday flow of
a busy life at work and home. Marie acknowledges how difficult it is to
translate knowledge into habit formation, and they discuss the importance
of accountability, consistency and practice, all of wh...
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June 26, 2018
In this episode Marie meets Beth Frates, MD. Trained as a physiatrist, Beth
coaches people to adopt healthy lifestyles, with an emphasis on diet,
sleep, stress resiliency and exercise. In this MedPEP episode, Beth focuses
on nutrition and healthy eating patterns as critical factors to energize
Marie over the course of rigorous days in the clinic. She describes the
evidence-based Harvard Healthy Plate - half is comprised o...
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Dr. Marie Curious reports back to Dr. Les Schwab that her arousal level is
unacceptably high in the course of the work day, and he comments that
difficult conversations in the clinic may be a contributing factor. He
introduces her to Dr. Cathy Lanteri, a practicing psychiatrist and
executive coach. Cathy explains that the current environment requires
physicians to develop expertise in communication, conflict resolution an...
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June 12, 2018
After Marie describes her experience with savoring the moment while
drinking water — a follow-up activity from the meeting with Dr. Gazelle —
Dr. Schwab introduces her to Diana Dill, EdD, who coaches physicians to
prevent burnout from feeling stressed and overwhelmed due to unsustainable
organizational changes. She points out that people have different stressors
and everyone has to assess if they have enough energy to sus...
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Dr. Schwab introduces Marie to Gail Gazelle, MD, a practicing hospice
physician and health professional coach, and they review multiple working
definitions of mindfulness. She stresses the need for compassion, both for
one’s patients as well as for oneself. Dr. Gazelle also emphasizes the
importance of being in the present moment, staying focused on the reality
in front of us. Marie comes to understand that focusing on th...
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After reviewing Marie’s effort to take time for lunch, Dr. Schwab
introduces her to Margaret Moore, MBA (a.k.a. Coach Meg), founder of the
first health and wellness coaching school in the United States. Coach Meg
points out that physicians are trained first and foremost to focus on their
patients' well-being and often feel guilty when they pause to take care of
themselves. "We’re not a healthy society, emotionally or phy...
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In this episode, Dr. Curious meets physiatrist and lifestyle medicine guru
Eddie Phillips, MD. Marie describes the draining of cognitive, emotional,
and physical energy engendered by rapid multitasking and juggling in the
clinic. In response, Dr. Phillips emphasizes the importance of physician
self-care to counteract energy depletion. Health professionals should
practice what they preach when it comes to a healthy lifesty...
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