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Craig Schneider, MD Director of Integrative Medicine

Caring for yourself as you care for patients. Craig Schneider, MD Director of Integrative Medicine Maine Medical Center Department of Family Medicine. Exploring how one defines own health, encourages our patients to do the same.

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Craig Schneider, MD Director of Integrative Medicine

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  1. Caring for yourself as you care for patients Craig Schneider, MD Director of Integrative Medicine Maine Medical Center Department of Family Medicine

  2. Exploring how one defines own health, encourages our patients to do the same. Balancing professional and personal life encourages satisfaction in both. Development of healthy habits in our daily lives may foster growth of a healthier profession and workplace.

  3. Plan for this session: • Brief review of balance and wellness • Develop own wellness plans • Letter to yourself

  4. RELAX • Tongues up! • Exhale gently • Inhale 4 • Hold 7 • Exhale 8 Whoosh! • REPEAT OFTEN

  5. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” • If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. • Yogi Berra

  6. Healthcare workers • Are great! • People oriented, Intelligent, Caring, Inquisitive • Are a mess! • Type A, Perfectionist, Competitive, Inflexible • For Clinicians (especially physicians) these traits are enhanced by our training • Mistakes are inexcusable • So busy taking care of others, we no longer take care of ourselves

  7. “Preferring high income and occupational success and prestige rather than close friends and a good marriage is strongly associated with being unhappy.” • Shanafelt, et al. Am J Med 2003;114:513

  8. Anxiety

  9. Depression

  10. Central Obesity

  11. Premature Aging

  12. Fatigue

  13. Wellness • A process, not a goal • Balance involves • Trying and failing • Learning from mistakes • How we define our health is not something that remains constant over time. • Relax…. • There are some core values • The Wellness plan can and will change

  14. “Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.”Rachel Naomi Remen, MD • Goal is to be “better” not “perfect” • Perfection is impossible…Improving is “do-able” …Excellence is “do-able.” • Can’t know everything…get used to it. • Most of us judge ourselves more harshly than we would a friend. • Need to accept we are imperfect, learn from mistakes, apologize if needed and move on.

  15. Wellness might simply be ensuring that the life we live and our work MATCHES our personal values.

  16. Physical Activity: Nutrition: Stress/Emotional Health: Meaning/Spirituality: Social and Relational: Environmental: Family History: Sleep: Behaviors/Habits: Medical: Others: Wellness Assessment and Planning Guide

  17. 5 minutes for a wellness plan • Consider some or all of these categories, where you are doing well, areas there is room to improve. • Think about your values, ideals, goals • How can you become more excellent, more aware of the things that make you happy and more effective?

  18. Top 3 goals based on assessment of above that you would like to work on over the next 3 months. • - • - • - • Strategies for achieving: • Minimum: • Reasonable: • Optimal: • For the next year • for the next 10 years.-

  19. 5 minutes for a letter to self • Write for 5 minutes, self address envelope • Listen to your inner voice, intuition • What brings you true happiness? • What don’t you ever want to lose? • What would you like to leave behind? • We’ll send it to you in 2-3 months. • Might arrive when doing great, or maybe when you are down, but the more you put yourself into this today, the more you will benefit when you receive it.

  20. Too busy? “Engrossed late and soon in professional cares you may find, too late, with hearts given way, that there is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make life worth living.” • William Osler addressing medical students in 1899

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