36. Your Ideal Job and the Power of a Personal Mantra with Jim Neuenschwander MD

By defining your ideal job description clearly and specifically, you are more likely to find that unicorn job and achieve fulfillment in your medical career.

Our special guest today is Dr. Jim Neuenschwander, an ER physician at Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville, Ohio. With a wide range of interests, he juggles being a research director, an associate professor in Emergency Medicine, a board-certified addiction specialist, and working in the COVID Clinic. 

In this episode, he tells the story about billing for critical care in the waiting room during these turbulent times of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also reveals his strategies and personal mantra for staying centered and helping him to prevent burnout.

“I want to provide the greatest opportunity for health and healing.”

- Jim Neuenschwander MD

Highlights:

• (02:46) Using community-based research to pay it forward 
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• (06:12) Building your ideal job description: When you are clear, it will appear
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• (10:33) COVID-19 ER Stories – billing for intensive care in the ED Lobby
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• (16:18) Your personal mission statement can be a mantra to keep you focused in difficult times

Resources:

• Tait D. Shanafelt, MD Study on Academic Physician Satisfaction: Career Fit and Burnout Among Academic Faculty https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415000
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• Stop Physician Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn't Working  https://bit.ly/StopPhysicianBurnoutBook
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• Building Your Ideal Job Description Worksheet https://bit.ly/JobDescriptionWorksheet

Check out related episode:

POP Ep27: Change, Fear, Failure, and Building a More Ideal Practice

https://physiciansonpurpose.libsyn.com/27-change-fear-failure-and-building-a-more-ideal-practice

Connect with Dr. Jim Neuenschwander:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesneuenschwander/
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• Genesis Healthcare System: https://www.genesishcs.org/find-doctors/neuenschwander-james-f-ii

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/gAFZNC5xRak

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