It’s hard for all of us to be superstars in clinical care, research, and education. For me, it was finding that sweet spot. —Dana Thompson, MD
Practice What You Preach
Michael Johns, MD, director of the University of Southern California Voice Center at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, said he began researching burnout early in his career because he thought it was an expedient way to bolster his academic credentials, when it finally began to dawn on him that he was violating the very principles he was promoting in his research. “Most of us get involved in scholarship because we’re, to a certain extent, content experts,” he said. “We have expertise about a topic, and we have something that we want to contribute. This was not true for me and burnout.”
After publishing and speaking on the topic, he became “more and more known for having expertise in burnout; all the while, I was working harder and harder and not in any way, shape, or form practicing what I preached in terms of self-assessment, of personal behaviors, and responses to stress.”
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