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Retirement is like playing Tetris

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 00:05

After four decades in medicine, I retired from the active practice of primary care 15 months ago.  I still get asked at least once a day: “Well, how’s retirement treating you?” My usual reply is that it is a learning process. A more accurate response would be that it is like playing Tetris, but with pieces that change shape and rotate unpredictably as they fall.

(For those not of a certain age, here is Tetris:

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Physician burnout

Submitted by PeterElias on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 06:00

I see and hear about more and more unhappy physicians, some of whom become happy former-physicians. It makes me reflect on my own circumstances.

Research suggests that the four major underlying contributors to physician dissatisfaction and burnout are

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System overload

Submitted by PeterElias on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 06:00

Under stress, including conditions of overload, systems degrade in a predictable manner.  

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