"The fact that our brain stores away about five
billion separate bits of intake information daily
from our five senses and rarely complains about it,
is enough proof for me to believe that there is
no limit to what our brain is capable of doing.
But when we attempt to gauge our ability to
consciously recognize and put the information to
appropriate use in our medical careers leaves
something to be desired."
The question is unanswerable unless one defines the storage vacancy limits of the brain and then creates measurement scalability of the information consumed. And who can do that? One thing is certain, that anyone can reach a point of burnout, confusion, loss of focus, and lack of analytic ability that creates shutdown of acceptable brain function leaving a person without passion, energy, ambition, and ability to recover a great deal of what they have lost.
Prevention of that is a matter of balancing one's life between their work and family/social environments. Frequent periods of time-outs with complete escape or distraction from the work efforts is commonly advised. When a physician doesn't know how to implement that pattern into their work passions, things fall apart, like marriage, social life, and career maintenance. All these problems commonly are denied, deferred, or left to fate unless a good deal of self-discipline
is present.
Because physicians are so vulnerable to these mental overload problems and consequences and because medical students and medical doctors are offered minimal, if any, emotional or mental support during their medical school education and training, all medical school students are left to their own control and consequences.
Three days later I was back to normal again.
Some of the law schools have begun mental counseling of law students because of the increasing numbers of suicides and depressive episodes of attorneys. I became so depressed after flunking a major medical course in medical school, thinking I would be kicked out of medical school as a result, that I considered suicide at the time. And I doubt that I'm the only one who has felt that way when our brain is triggered under enough distress to take into consideration all means available for relief. We all have trigger points at some level of stress which is different for everyone.
It would have been a complete and intolerable event to be booted out of med school after such
a long and hard toil to get there. There was no one there to counsel me I believed, at least there was never a mention by faculty that there was a place for students to go for help in 1959. After a tearful talk with the dean, I found that there were 50 or so of our class who flunked the test and he had no reason to send them all home for that single event.
It's worth talking about today because each medical student is pushed to learn much more in medicine than when I attended medical school because there is much more knowledge available to be learned. There is a limit to what any student can tolerate, although it is different for each student or physician. What I see happening is that medical students are being given medical courses and training that are later never used in real medical practice for 95% of students. That's wasted time in life, learning, and medicine.
After all, our minds are untamed, run wild with thoughts and desires, keep us awake when we want to sleep, and after we are older our memory banks go bankrupt despite all the over-the-counter medications that are constantly touted to work miracles, and don't.
Our habit patterns become unconscious actions eventually, like tying our shoes without thinking through the process, like piano players who don't have to think about the next note to play on the keyboard because it has become subconscious.
Our medical diagnosis and treatments arrive in our brain in the same way. Over time we all learn how to control our minds and thoughts which helps us to rid our minds of wasted time and energy. We don't know how it happens, but it happens. That leads to our ability to consciously crowd out of our minds the useless stuff and replace it with the useful knowledge. Then we have the problem mentally to organize the information to be highly useful and readily available.
Business education in the mind's eye is nothing more than learning the obvious facts, interpreting how they can be applied to your medical practice business, and using what you have learned in the most profitable manner. That's what has been missing in our medical school education for the last century. And that's what makes success in our medical businesses so remarkable.
Since medical practice business education is the foundation for a truly successful medical practice, it is logical and sensible to teach business essentials during medical school in place of those useless medical courses. The basic concept of medical education seems to be to teach every student the same large volume of medical knowledge so that each medical student can "cafeteria style" pick and choose the segments of that information that they personally can match to their desires and
career ambition.
There is no doubt that the"business of medical practice" is just as important as medical knowledge for private medical practice physicians. The fallacy about business education for physicians being unnecessary has continuously resulted in abuse of all physicians and medical students.
That abuse becomes woven through the fabric of our minds, which is documented by the numerous deleterious consequences that occur during our years of our medical practice business careers. Increasing physician attrition, loss of private medical practices for financial reasons, inability to fund a retirement plan or afford to send their kids to college, constant worry and stress about decreasing income in practice, increasing government mandates and fee restrictions that leave physicians helpless to defend themselves, are a few of the widespread issues found in private medical practice.
Business knowledge is also important to physicians who are employed, quit, and start private medical practice (about 14%). Why are physicians quitting medical practice business in droves, selling their practices to hospitals, and have become so frustrated with their medical careers today?
They are discovering that when you can't earn enough money to stay in practice and meet your family obligations, their careers are in jeopardy. They have no knowledge about medical practice business management and profitably, nor how to effectively increase their income at any time they need to, because they have no business education that would give them the skills, the knowledge, and the strategies all businesses use for success--the business tools.
If you want at least a fighting chance to accumulate enough business education to enlighten you about the value that the knowledge has to your career and enable you to get started using such business knowledge, then by reading all my articles on this website and the books I recommend to you, you would be much further ahead in your career than you will be without it. If you don't believe that, then it's a choice you have to live with during your career in medical practice. However, you can always become employed and make money for someone else.
Remember that business knowledge is required for almost every action we all take in our lives, not just for physicians. You know what happens to those with no business knowledge in our society. And if the public or private schools no longer teach those business things to our kids, who will teach them? Will they even manage their own lives? The fact that all money is derived from some business entity, should jolt you into reality.
If you want to test how money/business fits into your medical career, try practicing medicine for free.
----Professional Probe----
"There are other jobs that are far less
stressful than medical practice and
sometimes can make you a lot of income.
Even industrious intersection hustlers can
earn upwards of $30,000 to $40,000 a year
that are supplied to them through
car windows."
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