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Physician Burnout Selfless Altruism

June 1st, 2008 by admin

It is by definition the duty of a physician to be there to look after one’s patients, often to the detriment of one’s own personal health and well-being. Everyone including the physician themselves unquestioningly subscribes to this unspoken rule.

It’s no wonder that physicians are faced with ever increasing rates of burnout and the medical profession is falling behind in its subscribed role as the care taker of others.

Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that when physicians subscribe to such an unsustainable rule they make themselves and ultimately their profession unsustainable? In other words they are actually putting their patients at risk!

So what is to be done with this conundrum?

Well the answer may lie in answering the question: “What is the true meaning of helping someone maintain their health?”

I’m not sure that such a question has ever really been asked. If it had I think that the answer would not only provide patients with an improved quality of life, it would also improve the lives of physicians and reduce the overall budget that governments and other institutions spend on healthcare today.

Costs would necessarily decrease because by offering “true help”, whatever that means, the efficiency of healthcare delivery will rise. So what does it mean to provide “true help” to one’s patients?

Well in order to answer this question I am suggesting that we take a close look at the “selfless altruism” model that most physicians now subscribe to. This model dictates that the health of the patient is the sole responsibility of the physician and that he/she is not only expected to bear this but that this is to be considered an act of virtuosity or kindness.

So is the “selfless altruism” approach actually “helping” the patient? When you convince someone that they are not responsible for the care of their own mind and body and they then willingly give up this right what have you actually done?

For one, you have just taken away their power to be in control of their destiny. You have also made them helplessly dependent on you. Now imagine having to take responsibility for a patient load of say 5000 helplessly dependent individuals. How does that make you feel? How does that make them feel? Well the answer to the latter is clear: helplessly dependent.

And you? Are you feeling overburdened, overwhelmed, a great sense of heaviness, like your vital life energy has just been drained from your body, and like you no longer have time to have a life of your own?

What does this “energy drain” represent? Well if you look at it closely I think you will agree that, apart from feeling like you are dying, it represents your inner wisdom telling you that there is something wrong with this picture.

Now let’s suppose you decided, for whatever reason, to give back the responsibility and the power for self care back to each and everyone of your patients. Imagine also that by doing so you have reclaimed responsibility for your own self care, because that is what it means to do the former. Imagine that it becomes your role to simply remind others that it is “their” responsibility to be in charge of their health simply making self respecting choices in your own

How are you feeling now? If you are feeling lighter, more peaceful, relieved, free, more energized, contented, and more joyful then again that is your inner wisdom telling you that something is right.

So how can you make such a dramatic transformation occur in your life and in the lives of your patients?

In order to do so it becomes necessary to address all of the toxic, limiting, conditioned negative beliefs that you have stored inside of you. The very beliefs that you structured your life and your practice on and which are killing you and your patients.

There is now a modality called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) that allows you to do this quickly, easily and with powerful results. If you’d like to experience a short interactive audio clip of MRP kindly visit the web link below where you can download it free.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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