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Hello my wonderful friends! 

You know from listening to Women Physicians Flourish that a big theme in my life is belonging, and a lot of what I and the women I interviewed talked about was learning to truly belong to ourselves and those we care about. That often involves the hard work of unlearning the conditioning of the roles that have been dictated to us as women, physicians, teachers, parents, etc. 

My new podcast is called Belonging In The South: A Guide For Misfits, and my focus is on people who live in the American South and in some way or other have found it difficult to belong. If you live in the South or have lived here in the past, you probably know what I mean.  But I don’t stop at talking about how it can be hard to belong - we talk about what to do about it. 

I’m sharing here first, because y’all are my people and I hope that it will resonate with you even if you aren't from the South. 

Understanding how our medical culture formed is an important step in unraveling the toxicity that has led to burnout and dissatisfaction, and toward building a sustainable, fulfilling, and joyful profession we can be proud to practice. 

Using some of the information in this paper on the historical perspective on obstacles to physicians’ emotional health, this week’s podcast episode takes a deep dive into the origins of some of our problems, and some possible solutions.

The paper’s authors propose three main categories of obstacles that have arisen as part of medical culture:

• Medical exceptionalism: the idea that being a physician is so special that WE have to lose ourselves.
• Medicalization of mental health issues: the idea that physicians with any mental health issues are “sick” and “impaired.”
• Individual responsibility: the idea that the responsibility for dealing with mental  or physical health problems, or one’s own wellbeing, resides solely with the individual, and not the institution. 

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This week's podcast episode is taking a dive into two papers studying Self-Valuation behaviors in Physicians.  Listen for more on why resilience may not be the panacea for preventing burnout, because physicians already are high in resilience. What we ARE lacking is self-valuation.

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