Transforming the Heart of Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physician Wellbeing in Changing Times

      • John R. Combes

      Pages 3-7

   3. Research on Physician Burnout and Wellbeing: A Solution-Oriented Perspective

      • Richard J. Bogue, Nancy R. Downing

      Pages 9-47

   4. Why Should We Care?

      • Herdley O. Paolini

      Pages 49-56

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Preventing Burnout Through Physician Integration: An Organizational Approach to Physicians That Can Improve Physicians’ Personal Work-Life Integration

      • Dianne E. McCallister, Barbara Couden Hernandez, Doug Wysockey-Johnson, Ted Hamilton

      Pages 59-65

   3. Physician Accountability and Medicus Integra©

      • Ted Hamilton

      Pages 67-71

   4. Respect

      • Ted Hamilton

      Pages 73-79

   5. Trust

      • Ted Hamilton

      Pages 81-87

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. A Single Step and a Thousand Miles

      • Ted Hamilton

      Pages 91-95

   3. Physicians, Heal One Another: A Letter to Healthcare Administrators

      • Peter J. Weiss

      Pages 97-100

   4. How Doctors Are Wired

      • Dianne E. McCallister, Ravi S. Chari

      Pages 101-106

   5. Organizational Opportunities to Enhance Physician Learning

      • Barbara Couden Hernandez

      Pages 107-113

5. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Physician Wellbeing as a Matter of Mission: What We Have Learned at AdventHealth and Through the Coalition for Physician Wellbeing

      • Ted Hamilton

      Pages 117-121

   3. Forming a Physician Culture of Mission and Wellbeing

      • Michael W. Doyle

      Pages 123-131

   4. Provider’s Mission Fit and Alignment

      • DeAnna Marie Santana-Cebollero

      Pages 133-137

   5. New Physician Assimilation: The Role of Mentoring

      • Malcolm B. Herring, Rachel Forbes Kaufman

      Pages 139-146

​This unique, step-by-step guide offers a comprehensive exploration of burnout and physician wellbeing, a vital issue that steadily has become widely discussed in the professional and mainstream press.   More than twenty chapter authors contribute to this multidimensional volume, including physicians, psychologists, researchers, healthcare administrators, chaplains, professional coaches, and counselors. Section one of the book establishes context, provides a brief overview of the phenomenon of physician burnout, establishes its validity, and makes a case for the reason it has emerged as a critical issue in American healthcare.  Section two provides a rationale for healthcare institutions (hospitals, physician groups, medical associations) to make a commitment to physician wholeness, while section three then starts the process of delineating a step-by-step curriculum to address the dilemma, providing additional detail and personal experience direct from the frontlines of combatting burnout. Section four focuses on developing and sustaining a healthy professional culture that is aligned with the mission of the organization, and section five addresses the spiritual component of physician wholeness,   Section six concludes the book with two personal essays that poignantly express the nature of two common experiences affecting physicians that require uncommon insight, patience, courage. Transforming the Heart of Practice is a major contribution to the literature and will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with addressing this crisis in American healthcare.

• Wellbeing
• Health
• Burnout
• Engagement
• Accountability

• The Medical Center of Aurora and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospitals, Administration, Aurora, USA

  Dianne E. McCallister

• AdventHealth, Mission & Ministry, Altamonte Springs, USA

  Ted Hamilton

Dianne McCallister
The Medical Center of Aurora and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospitals
Aurora, CO
USA



Ted Hamilton
AdventHealth
Altamonte Springs, FL
USA

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