When troubling events occur at your place of employment, how do you deal with trauma from work afterwards? To the average layperson, “workplace trauma” means a random shooting incident, sexual harassment, or assault. But if your career is in healthcare, you probably experience other forms of trauma multiple times each week: New waves of COVID-19…
Professionals are under a lot of stress normally and their stress level has increased significantly over the past year and a half, during the pandemic. Two areas in particular, aviation and healthcare, are seeing high burnout rates. Burnout in physicians and pilots has some surprising similarities. What is Burnout? Burnout can happen when you’re overworked,…
Providence Treatment’s Healthcare Professionals Programs for Physicians Providence Treatment has many years of experience in working with Pennsylvania Physicians’ Health Programs (PA-PHP) and their healthcare professionals (participants) including physicians. When we receive a request from PHP, we perform an independent assessment with the participant. This assessment may take from one (1) to two (2) days, depending…
Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), such as physicians, make a significant commitment to their training and subsequently to their profession in caring for others. There is tremendous self-sacrifice in the service of building knowledge and experience to handle serious medical dilemmas for their patients. As such, it is probably not surprising that a physician can have difficulty…