Open AccessMistakes Made and Lessons Learned: A Mid-Career Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Journey to Sustain Energy and Avoid Burnout
Author(s) -
John M. Flynn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pediatric orthopaedics/journal of pediatric orthopedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.318
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1539-2570
pISSN - 0271-6798
DOI - 10.1097/bpo.0000000000001488
Subject(s) - burnout , medicine , energy (signal processing) , work (physics) , sight , medical education , mechanical engineering , clinical psychology , statistics , physics , mathematics , astronomy , engineering
Twenty-three years into this journey as a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, my path is littered with mistakes made. The collision of a "family-first" philosophy with the demands of my busy academic surgical practice-not pretty. As a canary in a toxic coal mine, I have failed to fix the mine, so I have focused on being the very strongest and resilient canary possible.