MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'burned out'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:18 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3036932&cid=t_166300_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fburnt-out-depressed-surgeons-need-help%2F Depression affects job performance – that’s been known for a while now. Burn out does as well. When the worker is not involved in keeping humans safe and healthy, this can be costly to the employer and frustrating to coworkers, but when the worker is a doctor, much more is at risk. It isn’t hard to imagine doctors getting burned out or depressed. They usually see people at their worst and their most vulnerable. The responsibilities on a doctor can become overwhelming. Surgeons, for example, have to make split second decisions sometimes as their patients lie open, literally, in front of them. Mistakes by an accountant may cost someone a lot of money, mistakes by a surgeon can cost someone their life. Considering that many errors do occur in a hospital, from the nurses to t... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3036932 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:13:29 +0100 3036932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1189991&cid=t_166300_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F30%2Fburned-out-on-your-marriage-or-relationship%2F Last week, I wrote an article about job burn-out, and some tips to help cope with it. This week I was going to write an article about marriage burn-out, but I didn’t bother because someone else already did in yesterday’s Washington Post! While the Washington Post article by Abigail Trafford focuses mostly on long marriages, I think one can have that “burned out” feeling doing anything for even just 5 or 6 years, much less 20 or 30. I think marriages, unlike jobs, are far more challenging to maintain, and beyond just maintaining it, actually helping to nurture it and watch it grow over the years. It can be done. The article mostly focuses on describing how and why many marriages burn out after decades of togetherness, often due to two people growing apart over th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1189991 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:11:31 +0100 1189991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1177672&cid=t_166300_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F25%2Ffive-tips-to-bust-job-burnout%2F Virtually everyone will face the prospect of job burnout at one point. Whether you’re an office worker or a carpenter, a salesperson or a doctor, job burnout occurs when we become dissatisfied with and overwhelmed by our current job and can’t really identify what’s wrong. We’ve gathered together five tips to help identify possible problems and some quick solutions that may help you better bust job burnout. 1. Combat boredom A lot of people get bored with their jobs, plain and simple. They no longer find the job challenging, or find that the job’s daily routine has become incredibly uninteresting. A job you once looked forward to starting at the beginning of the day now is something you dread. You can combat job boredom a number of ways. Spice up your curre... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1177672 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:35:11 +0100 1177672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1148212&cid=t_166300_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F01%2F13%2Fmy-brain-is-exploding%2F This is how I’ ve been feeling for a while now. Rapid thoughts and too damn many of them. With everything that has been invented, WTF has someone invented and On/Off knob that could be inserted in our brain? Had a great (but short) manic episode the other nite. Just could not sleep at all. Stayed up all nite. When the sun rose the next morning around 5 o’clock, I was out in my yard trying to find weird stuff to take pictures of. It was HEAVEN!!!! I WANT SUM MO’ OF DAT!!!! Miss you all. Have a good nite. (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1148212 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:41:17 +0100 1148212