DRIVE TIME DEBRIEF: A Physician Wellness Podcast with The Whole Physician #35: Organizational Wellbeing with Hani Chaabo, MD
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In this episode, you get to meet one of our favorite humans, Dr. Hani Chaabo. He's a family doctor with integrative medicine training, now serving as the medical director of wellbeing at his hospital in Ridgecrest, CA He speaks with us about organizational wellbeing.
Some highlights:
- 70-80% of burnout is actually institutional - related to high workload and job demand that are disproportionate to the available resources to the clinician
- burnout is the highest in healthcare, more than any other helping profession
- burnout leads to decreased quality of care
- the bureaucratic admin burden of healthcare is uniquely to the United States
- prioritizing wellbeing is actually lucrative to an organization in many ways
- some things that organizations do that don't work:
- scapegoat physicians
- many of the typical things done in the Era of Distress
- some things that organizations do that DO work:
- incorporating people's voice
- allowing more autonomy
- give a sense of meaning and purpose
- allow workers to feel like they're growing in their work environments
- leaders being led by the changes the team wants to see
- compassionate communication and culture
- appoint wellbeing leaders
- "Everybody who has traveled through their suffering and found healing was able to change the world somehow." - Dr. Hani Chaabo
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