36. Your Ideal Job and the Power of a Personal Mantra with Jim Neuenschwander MD

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By defining your ideal job description clearly and specifically, you are more likely to find that unicorn job and achieve fulfillment in your medical career.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our special guest today is Dr. Jim Neuenschwander, an ER physician at Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville, Ohio. With a wide range of interests, he juggles being a research director, an associate professor in Emergency Medicine, a board-certified addiction specialist, and working in the COVID Clinic. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, he tells the story about billing for critical care in the waiting room during these turbulent times of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also reveals his strategies and personal mantra for staying centered and helping him to prevent burnout.</span></p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“<em>I want to provide the greatest opportunity for health and healing</em>.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Jim Neuenschwander MD</span></p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(02:46) Using community-based research to pay it forward </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(06:12) Building your ideal job description: When you are clear, it will appear</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(10:33) COVID-19 ER Stories – billing for intensive care in the ED Lobby</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(16:18) Your personal mission statement can be a mantra to keep you focused in difficult times</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tait D. Shanafelt, MD Study on Academic Physician Satisfaction:</span> Career Fit and Burnout Among Academic Faculty <span><a href= "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415000"> https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415000</a></span></li> <li>Stop P