A Career or a Calling?
Welcome back. In this edition, we explore the bosses cracking down on employees who abuse company perks. Also, the generational divide among doctors over work-life balance and why pantyhose aren't dead yet.
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Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That's Not the Job.
Is medicine a career or a calling? That depends on which generation you ask. Physicians for generations accepted being at the mercy of their pagers. Now, many are questioning medicine’s workaholic culture.
Bosses Crack Down on People Abusing Perks at Work
Companies are strictly enforcing rules to show who’s in charge and control expenses. It's a new wrinkle in the employer-employee power struggle that's tilting in companies’ favor, writes Callum Borchers, the Journal's On The Clock columnist. Businesses get to make an example of rule-breakers and reduce payroll without having a real layoff.
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Best of the Rest
Check out some of the Journal's best-read stories on work life over the past week:
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19 小时前The medical field is definitely a calling...it has to be in the employee to be affective, just like teaching
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19 小时前Well said!
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1 周Investigative research presented at NAM, AMA, ACGME, NIOSH, and AAME indicate that a new culture of physicians prefer well-being and balance with more GME slots, than the toxic economic driven, achievement based identity, with status, prestige, and income. My PhD research comparing GME practices in Europe and Asia measure burn-out, team functionality, toxic personalities, and readmission rates. Insurance companies should penalize hospitals with higher premiums when they push 20-hour shifts. The duty of care is to the patient entrusting the ethical integrity of the medical profession. It is not the profits through high salaries, hospital mega-centers, and pharma industrial complex.
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2 周Really great article. Thanks for sharing