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Outstanding Healthcare Teams, Part ll

November 1, 2013 By Marsha Snyder

There is no doubt that an effectively functioning healthcare team, in all healthcare settings, can decrease medical errors, improve communication between healthcare providers, empower patients to participate in their own care, facilitate early problem solving, and decrease the cost of care. However, the key to a successful team lies in its process. Physicists tell us […]

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Outstanding health care teams

July 21, 2013 By Marsha Snyder

The Spirited Multidisciplinary Healthcare Team Healthcare is a high stress work setting where professional burn out is common. Burnt out physicians and healthcare workers lose focus on tasks at hand and withdraw from engagement with others; they project their frustration and anger on their colleagues. The result is relationships that lack professionalism and divide the […]

Filed Under: Ill-Being, Medical practice, Outstanding teams, Positive Health

Meaning in a doctor’s life

May 8, 2013 By Marsha Snyder

I felt accomplished as Chair of Psychiatry for a large 4-hospital health network (and the first female to hold a Chairman position), the head of a happy family  (myself and my 2 young autistic children), and a health nut in top physical condition. The fact that over the past several years I had been suffering […]

Filed Under: About Dr Snyder, Ill-Being, Medical practice, Physical health, Positive Health, Resilience

Most doctors have low self-esteem

May 8, 2013 By Marsha Snyder

Most individuals who choose to become physicians in the US come from dysfunctional families. They tend to have low self-esteem. However, they often function in the role of “rescuer” or “the successful child” and that is how they get any recognition at all. Because of their background they feel it is their duty to continue […]

Filed Under: Faculty, Ill-Being, Medical practice, Medical student education, Positive Health, Resident Education, Resilience

What happened to me

April 27, 2013 By Marsha Snyder

I am a medical doctor in Pennsylvania. My specialty is psychiatry and I have been actively involved in the Physicians’ Health field since 1991, dealing primarily with depression and burnout in doctors. In 2002 I developed a severe illness that gradually rendered me unable to walk. Over the next two years I saw multiple doctors […]

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Positive Health: The Book

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