Am I doing it wrong? For Doctors by Doctors.

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👫👭👬 Hang out with Kristeen & Becc on more social media! 🌎 📽 Kristeen's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3JaSHBE 👋 Kristeen's Instagram: https://bit.ly/4aKX5mq 📽 Becc's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3TQbLKl 👋 Becc's Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QgkTqT Hey there, amazing doctors humans! We're back with another episode of Am I Doing It Wrong? Have you ever looked up to someone so much th...

👫👭👬 Hang out with Kristeen & Becc on more social media! 🌎 📽 Kristeen's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3JaSHBE 👋 Kristeen's Instagram: https://bit.ly/4aKX5mq 📽 Becc's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3TQbLKl 👋 Becc's Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QgkTqT What to Do in a Hard Situation In this episode, we discuss how to approach challenging situations. Key Takeaways Challenge your fears:  When...

👫👭👬 Hang out with Kristeen & Becc on more social media! 🌎 📽 Kristeen's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3JaSHBE 👋 Kristeen's Instagram: https://bit.ly/4aKX5mq 📽 Becc's Youtube: https://bit.ly/3TQbLKl 👋 Becc's Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QgkTqT Comparison Almost Stole Our Friendship: How to Respond to Comparison, Not Retreat From It Drs. Kristeen Barker and Becc explore the story of...

For a long time, Becc was afraid that being positive would mean she'd drop the ball. She thought her self-doubt and self-criticism gave her an edge.  She couldn't imagine success that didn't come with anxiety and stress.  In this episode, we take a page out of Kristeen's core and characteristic outlook on life: using positive energy. We've both struggled with negativity in the...

This episode will help you break the cycle. In this episode, we talk about all you need to know about your self-sabotage. The Nature of Self-Sabotage Difficulty Identifying in the Moment:  Self-sabotage is often hard to recognize as it happens, requiring hindsight or the help of others to see the patterns. Case Study: The 'Good' Doctor - our example of prioritizing patient care over studyi...

Sticks and stones may break my bones but SILENCE… Well, it makes me a wee little bit crazy…   Negative feedback is not the only place that our minds can spin out on us. For many of us, we have a painful reaction to receiving no feedback at all. In that space, our mind fills in the gaps between people's (in)action and their implications.   Specifically, the situation we're talking about is...

Okay guys, here's a hard truth. All of your procrastination is ultimately due to you trying to avoid emotions. Your want to avoid the unpalatable or even downright repelling emotion of what every task or activity you planned to be doing may be conscious or, more commonly, subconscious. When not conscious (aware) of our reasoning, our minds will default to avoiding discomfort. Whenever we'r...

Last week we talked about the PROBLEM. This week, let's talk about the SOLUTION.    Last week's episode, episode 20, was an episode that resonated with a lot of you - we started to dissect why clinical work seems to be especially exhausting cognitively and emotionally… And because of that, also physiologically and physically.   Paradoxically, an important part of finding solutions for ours...

Are you EXHAUSTED or is it just me?    Clinical work is pretty magical. There is so much to love and enjoy about it. Something that comes with such highs apparently fairly comes with some lows too.    One of them seems to be that most of us will agree it's EXHASTING.    You can seemingly come home after a day of simply circling the wards at a pace that would make weekend golfers look athletic…...

TALL POPPY SYNDOME. Be excellent. But be quiet about it.   Australia has a strong preference for or even culture of humility. We don't like it when people think a lot of themselves … Even if they've got a lot of good stuff to think about. Being humble is the expectation. And bragging is perhaps the worst offence.    We even have a name for the cultural quirk: THE TALL POPPY SYNDROME.   The...

Well hello there, welcome back! And into another beautiful week of 2024. This week's episode is a beautiful compliment to our last episode to kick off 2024. It's all about the impact of our words. Kristeen and Becc have both personally benefited from this practice of being strategic with the words they use. This is a relatively LOW EFFORT yet HIGH-YIELD change that you can make in your lif...

Welcome, friends! Welcome back to the poddy and into the NEW YEAR.    We are so stoked to be able to start this year off with you and, on that note, we are so grateful for your support and connection in 2023.    New year can come with a lot of expectations and pressure.  New year, new you, right?   In this episode, we're here to take the pressure off WHILE making sure you don't miss out on...

It is extremely inconvenient to be tired right now. Relatable? We're talking about that kind of tiredness that isn't neutralised by a sleep-in, where you don't get re-booted from a workout or revived when you just work out you were missing some Vitamin Social Life.    We're talking about the kind of tiredness that won't allow itself to be ignored. The kind of tired where it see...

If your current strategy to deal with your concerns, fears and anxieties are to dismiss them, this episode is for you. Doctors aren't generally used to being BAD at things. But Becc has recognised something that we're pretty bad at across the board.    Self-validation   She's very passionate about bringing this skill to doctors for the benefit of both our professional and personal lives.    Why? B...

Join the ASK SANTA broadcast channel:  https://www.instagram.com/doctor_becc/   This week on the podcast, we're inviting you to a challenge for December: THE "ASK SANTA" CHALLENGE.    This is a challenge for you to take on the "Ask Santa" mindset.    Ask Santa is a permission-giving mindset.    It's a mindset that, at its foundation, asks you to stop auto-rejecting your...

We all leave behind a trail of unanswered questions in our day-to-day lives.    As a doctor working in the boundless universe of things we can know to make us better doctors, asking questions at opportune moments is an advantage that can't be compensated for with publications and uptodate articles.    In this podcast, we talk about Becc's accidental step out of her integrity when she let h...

The first rule: do not harm. Okay but what about when you do? It sounds like the simple, obvious and easy minimum - to not harm our patients as we care for them. But we all have a library of experiences where our treatment decisions did do harm. And that's because medicine is not just hard from a sense of needing to build and accumulate knowledge and skills to care for patients. It's not j...

TIME TO HANDOVER! Oh. No.   This is a MAJOR part of being a doctor that doesn't get enough attention. It needs to be done well to create good outcomes - for our patients and for ourselves as doctors and teammates.    As the doctor coming on, you have a short period of time to extract all of this important information from your colleague. Information that isn't always documented or possible...

You can find the COST OF LIVING exercise & checklist here: https://bit.ly/47kSG8b. When you sign up for the email list, not only will you receive the exercise but Becc guide you through it with self-coaching lessons & prompts straight to your inbox over the next 4 weeks.  --- Why are doctors burned out? What's the solution to burnout? How does the healthcare system need to change to so...

What's a common feature of a doctor's life? The DEADLINE AVALANCHE One deadline... Piece of cake Two deadlines... No problem  Three deadlines... Okay we can do this  Four deadlines... IT'S ONLY TUESDAY    Time management 101 isn't enough to save us in this situation of competing demands and conflicting priorities    The deadline avalanche can be managed by SURVIVING. This looks lik...

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"That's a competitive specialty!"   Doctors,    … If you having medical interviews in sight … Or a cover letter to write … If you've got a specialty in mind that you want to set yourself up over the next few years to apply for  … Or if you're trying to understand if you need to do this research or that … If you're wondering whether it's worth your time when it's &...

Most of us would say we are the type of person with a growth mindset. We're doctors, right? We signed up for a career of ongong learning skill development. But, if you know the growth mindset well, you know that it's not something that you 'are' or 'aren't'. It's not a personality trait. It is, by definition, a mindset. A mindset that we can shift in and out of. And...