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Your day is waiting. Are you ready?

Fellow doctors: By the time 8am hits, most of us are going to have a waiting room full of eager patients, or a busy operating room schedule. How do you approach the day? Do you straggle in, with one eye barely open pining for a cup of coffee? Ask yourself if that is the kind of physician that you would want to operate on you. In addition, our patients look to us to typify the model of ideal health and wellness. Do you look the part? Are you overweight and stressed out?

Remember that WE ARE THE TIP OF THE SPEAR in the fight for the health and well-being of our patients and society. We must start every day asking ourselves what we have done to deserve that role. Remember that with the great privilege of being entrusted with the art and gift of healing, comes the responsibility to be the part.

Personally, I have discovered the mental armor that comes with discomfort, of doing what the brain wants you to avoid, what takes you out of your comfort zone. Waking up at 4am to go on a 2-3km swim may seen crazy to some but that’s the precise reason to do it. Do the things that are hard. Serve as an example to your patients. Build some mental armor that will make you invincible to whatever that day decides to throw at you. Your patients will see it for sure.

Your day is waiting. Are you ready?

Fellow doctors: By the time 8am hits, most of us are going to have a waiting room full of eager patients, or a busy operating room schedule. How do you approach the day? Do you straggle in, with one eye barely open pining for a cup of coffee? Ask yourself if that is the kind of physician that you would want to operate on you. In addition, our patients look to us to typify the model of ideal health and wellness. Do you look the part? Are you overweight and stressed out?

Remember that WE ARE THE TIP OF THE SPEAR in the fight for the health and well-being of our patients and society. We must start every day asking ourselves what we have done to deserve that role. Remember that with the great privilege of being entrusted with the art and gift of healing, comes the responsibility to be the part.

Personally, I have discovered the mental armor that comes with discomfort, of doing what the brain wants you to avoid, what takes you out of your comfort zone. Waking up at 4am to go on a 2-3km swim may seen crazy to some but that’s the precise reason to do it. Do the things that are hard. Serve as an example to your patients. Build some mental armor that will make you invincible to whatever that day decides to throw at you. Your patients will see it for sure.