5. Four Levels of Physician Well-Being with Harjot Singh MD

Oftentimes, the terms wellness and well-being are used interchangeably.  Is there a significant difference especially in the context of physician burnout? This is expounded by Dr. Harjot Singh, a physician wellness and burnout prevention coach.  He is Assistant Medical Director in Kingsview Tele-Psychiatry services in California, a Fellow of American Psychiatric Association, and one of our coaches at TheHappyMD.com.  He shares with us his four-level system of wellbeing, namely succumbing, surviving, existing, and thriving.  Tune in on today’s episode to learn more. “Well-being is not just this weird positive thing all the time, take for example a busy life of a physician.  Every day we have a chance to do good. It's almost like we have to travel to any place else, to have that sense I did good today.”- Dr. Harjot Singh Highlights: (01:28)  The difference between wellness and well-being (02:12)  The science of well-being (04:00) Two types of well-being (04:47) The four-part scale (06:35) The jangle effect (12:23) Flow as a psychological concept (16:05) The role of vision on well-being  Resources: WHO article on mental health:  https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-health-strengthening-our-response University of Rochester articles on Burnout: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/23096820-michael-r-privitera/publications The Jangle Fallacy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001316445401400214?journalCode=epma  Connect with Dr. Harjot Singh:TheHappyMD.comLinkedin HarjotSinghMD.com Watch this episode:Youtube:  https://youtu.be/rDcJCNPnvOc Get to know more about Dr. Dike Drummond and The Happy MD:https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond We would love to hear your feedback. ...