35. Dr. Karen Leitner, physician and coach, discusses all your burning questions

"Now in this day and age of electronic everything, people can message you all the time. So if you're not willing to say these are the times I'm willing to be available for work and these are the times I'm not, you could be working 24/7.

There's this paradigm of inbox zero but even when you get to inbox zero you turn off your computer, theres' something that's in there again. So inbox zero really only happens if you leave your job or all your patients die. So it's sort of just growing your tolerance - I'm not going to check things between this time and this time, I'm not going to look on the weekends, I'm not going to check on vacation. It's like, are you allowed to say that? It's like sacrelig, but I think that's an example of setting a boundary around your time - when you will and won't answer pages, when you will or wont take extra shifts, if you're willing to do unpaid work. You just really have to decide."

This episode is with Dr. Karen Leitner, who is a physician coach based in Massachusetts.

In this episode we talk about:
- Working full time vs part time
- Setting boundaries with the electronic medical record (i.e. how to not always be tending to your inbox)
- Taking care of patients in the age of open charts
- Mom guilt
- Burnout
- Mental health concerns
- Negotiating for yourself
- Transitioning out of clinical medicine

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Connect with Karen:
- www.karenleitnermd.com
- Instagram @karenleitnermd