Thank you for speaking about leaves and the power of healing the healer. We all need more permission to prioritize ourselves and health. The cult of medicine trains us to ignore our body’s intuition and I’ve taken lots of time after residency figuring out how to build back the habits necessary to sustain me in carrying on in this field. We need to make time to teach this sooner in medical school and residency and I think it’s starting to shift. Thank you for sharing your story because it helps others be brave to speak up.
Hi Bryce and Rachel this was a wonderful podcast episode. I burned out twice, and both times I quit and reapplied and gotten into a training program and job that suited me more. For me there was no option to take a few weeks off. It would have been sick leave which I did not want to take. You are so lucky to have had a caring training program director.
Thank you for speaking about leaves and the power of healing the healer. We all need more permission to prioritize ourselves and health. The cult of medicine trains us to ignore our body’s intuition and I’ve taken lots of time after residency figuring out how to build back the habits necessary to sustain me in carrying on in this field. We need to make time to teach this sooner in medical school and residency and I think it’s starting to shift. Thank you for sharing your story because it helps others be brave to speak up.
Hi Bryce and Rachel this was a wonderful podcast episode. I burned out twice, and both times I quit and reapplied and gotten into a training program and job that suited me more. For me there was no option to take a few weeks off. It would have been sick leave which I did not want to take. You are so lucky to have had a caring training program director.