Archive for December, 2010
Looking back over the past month it has been very rewarding to view the expansion of Freelance MD.
It’s interesting to read through Jeff’s recent article about Freelance MD’s first four weeks in addition to the resonance this page also has had with physicians. Freelance MD was designed to offer physicians objective, credible info on an assortment of topics which are crucial to modern physicians. We knew going into to the project that there seemed to be not any other site on the net like this, and that we felt that the topics that people will be discussing would fill a necessary void. Based on our numbers, it seems like others are in agreement with us. Jeff and i sincerely hope you’re simply finding the site to be informative and encouraging.
In thinking of the rise of Freelance MD together with the start of the Medical Fusion Conference, I began to think much more about physicians and their careers. I’m in a rather unique place with regards to the case of physicians and their career issues. First, I’m a physician. Second, I come from a family of medical people (my cousin is a medical student, my dad and brother are surgeons, my sister is actually a medical malpractice defense attorney, and my mom happens to be an elected official who sponsored wrongful death tort reform inside my home state). Third, I run two national conferences and come into connection with physicians from multiple specialties who practice all throughout the state. Everything contact with many types of physicians allows me a lot of chance to discuss the idea of physician career modification and what physicians might be doing to improve their situation.
When the case of career modification arises in conversation with my physician friends, apparently most are frustrated on their clinical practices, but they also seem completely overwhelmed by the very thought of building a change. These friends are like the survivors of a plane crash on the deserted island that happen to be sitting on the beach in stunned shock realizing they’re now marooned. They’re so overwhelmed using the shock and horror from the crash that they haven’t moved beyond the shock to the level of working towards their survival and, hopefully, escape from the island. They’re still soaking in the sand, wailing, “We’ve crashed! We’ve crashed! We are all alone! How will we survive? Exactly what are we gonna do!??!!!”
Look, I’m not really saying things are rosy and that we shouldn’t have concerns. I believe it’s obvious to everyone that these medical profession has crashed. The days are gone when becoming an excellent clinician would be the only worry of the physician. Today’s physicians have to balance clinical excellence with billing codes, patient satisfaction scores, duplicitous administrators, underhanded trial lawyers, and a government bureaucracy seemingly set on driving the whole healthcare industry on the dirt. It isn’t really an excellent situation to generally be in and when there ever was an occasion when one will be justified a little despair, now is that period.
However, what I’ve found amazing about Freelance MD together with the Medical Fusion Conference is always that regardless of pretty much everything doom and gloom in medicine, there are a number of talented individuals that happen to be not just surviving the present environment, they’re thriving. These folks aren’t sitting in the sand weeping over their losses, they’ve moved from the beach and have taken active, deliberate steps to further improve their situation.
I’m reminded of the quip in the author G.K. Chesterton who, when asked by the journalist what book he’d most wish to have with him if he was ever marooned at a deserted island, said, “Why, A Practical Guide to Shipbuilding, not surprisingly…”
The leaders I’ve met?lots of whom are authors on this website?are inspirational given that they aren’t just moaning about how exactly horrible the crash has been with them or waiting passively at the beach for somebody to rescue them. No, these leaders are in the jungle, foraging for food, building shelter, scouting out the island for opportunities and, most importantly, creating a vessel to have them off the island when the timing is proper.
If these people happen to be so successful for making the transition, why then numerous physicians still moribund, stewing in despair and learned helplessness? Exactly why is making the modification so challenging for a lot of physicians?
There’s a lot of theories relating to this there are numerous individuals writing on Freelance MD who have been addressing this very issue, however it is essential to note what appears for being a universal truth: many physicians are experiencing a difficult time adjusting their careers to the present reality around them.
When we build Freelance MD, certainly one of my very own goals is to build the site in the way that offers very practical, systematic steps for physicians to start taking control of their careers, shaking from the learned helplessness through which they’ve been festering, and begin working on their “ship” to acquire them off their deserted island and back at the road to adventure along with a more fulfilling career.
Think you’re interested?
If so, join our motley crew and learn in the experts on the site. Join up and ask questions. Help with town and teach others what you are learning. Simply speaking, get started, at this time, making the transition for yourself.
The amount of time for sand-wallowing is through.
It is time to build your own ship.
Post courtesy of Freelance MD, a non-clinical physician jobs site offering physician resources like nonclinical jobs and offers information that allows physicians more control of their career, income and lifestyle.
A movie that has gotten positive reviews from critics and audiences alike is The Other Guys. An action-comedy starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Samuel L. Jackson, the movie is a hit in movie theaters, DVD rentals, and DVD sales. The Other Guys trailer is a popular download as well.
The story is a creative one. When police detectives Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) pursue a group of thugs in a car, there is a brief gun battle that results in the hood of Highsmith’s car getting blown into the windshield. The two end up crashing into the broadside of a double decker bus. Danson drives in after the thugs and amazingly slingshots the car out the other side of the bus. Highsmith is firing at the criminals the entire time, crashing into Trump Tower, somehow surviving the wreckage. The criminals at first escape, but police backup quickly arrives to brings them into custody.
Detective Gamble (Will Ferrell) is a forensic accountant who is more interested in paperwork than street patrol, but reveres Detectives Highsmith and Danson. Disgraced Police Detective Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) has been stuck with Allen as his partner since the time he shot baseball star Derek Jeter during the World Series. Hoitz and Allen therefore get little respect from other police officers. They hilariously trick Allen into firing his gun in the office, humiliating him with a wood practice gun as a disciplinary measure. Hoitz detests Allen’s taste in music, his singing while driving and the fact that he has a pretty wife (played by Eva Mendes). During one chase of some bank robbers, Danson and Highsmith die jumping off a 20-story building onto the sidewalk, inexplicably agreeing to aim for bushes that aren’t there. The two were held out as heros by the force despite their error.
When an opportunity presents itself for Hoitz and Gamble (The Other Guys) to rise to the occasion, things do not quite go as planned. Allen begins looking into a scaffolding permit code violation but winds up blowing the lid off of a much bigger plot by multi-billionaire David Ershon to cover his company’s losses. As things get worse, Allen and Terry are forced to go their separate ways. Allen still tries to solve the mystery on his own, even though Terry thinks it is a dead end. Eventually, he gets admissable evidence and earns his real gun back. Allen rejoins him, and they proceed to stop the criminals who are trying to scam the money. Allen initially believes the $32 billion Ershon is trying to come up with will come from the New York Lottery Office, but he finds out that it will really come from the New York Police Department pension fund. Both officers end up getting shot when backup finally arrives on the scene, rescuing the two and neatly tying up loose ends with Ershon and Wesley. Allen and Terry believe that the true heroes are the people in all walks of life who make the world a safer place, not the ones who appear on TV. Ershon’s arrest leads to a stock market crash and a subsequent federal bailout. The film ends with the memorable scene of a peacock flying by the screen in reference to Terry’s remark “I am a peacock, you gotta let me fly.”
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