Overcoming Burnout and Building Resilience in Healthcare with Dr. Svetlana Chamoun
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of REJUVENAGING with Dr. Ron Kaiser , Dr. Svetlana Chamoun, a board-certified cardiologist and CEO of CardioSeeds, joins Dr. Ron to discuss the profound impact of burnout on healthcare professionals and her journey to combat it. Dr. Chamoun shares her personal experience with burnout while serving as Chief Cardiologist during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it motivated her to create CardioSeeds. This company focuses on reducing burnout and promoting stress management among healthcare providers by integrating lifestyle medicine principles, which aim to address the root causes of chronic diseases.
Dr. Chamoun and Dr. Ron explore the broader effects of physician burnout on patient care, highlighting how clinician well-being is vital to improving health outcomes. Dr. Chamoun explains that when healthcare professionals are burned out, their ability to care for patients diminishes, ultimately affecting the entire healthcare system. They also dive into the importance of lifestyle medicine, which emphasizes prevention through six key pillars: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, social connectedness, and avoiding harmful substances.
In addition, Dr. Chamoun discusses her advocacy for women physicians, who often face unique challenges such as balancing family responsibilities and navigating male-dominated fields. She introduces her books, "Resilience in Scrubs" and her upcoming release "The Woman Physician's Survival Guide," which provide practical tools for women in healthcare to overcome burnout and thrive in their careers. This conversation offers valuable insights into how individuals in various high-stress professions can improve their well-being and longevity through holistic approaches to wellness. The discussion also highlights the importance to us as patients to have health care providers who are not highly stressed.
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https://www.facebook.com/CardioSeeds
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| 0:00.0 | I'm originally from Ukraine. I've been here for 32, 33 years and I saw many aspects of health |
| 0:11.7 | care here that are unique to the United States and that are |
| 0:17.3 | unique to specifically women physicians. Women physicians everywhere not only in the United States, but also, you know, in other countries of the world, undergo very unique challenges, so they have very unique challenges throughout their careers. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to rejuvenating with Dr. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to rejuvenating with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is a podcast designed to help you lead your life |
| 0:48.6 | enthusiastically. Today, tomorrow, and every other day. I am your host Ron Kaiser, positive health |
| 0:56.2 | psychologist and coach, also keynote and TEDx speaker and author of |
| 1:01.7 | rejuvenating the art and science of growing older with enthusiasm. goal is to always bring you interesting, informative, and often entertaining guests who lead their |
| 1:17.5 | own lives with enthusiasm and have different ways of helping us to become better versions of ourselves. |
| 1:25.2 | And we really have a special treat in store for us today |
| 1:30.2 | because our next guest, whole being, is devoted to helping people to become healthier, happier and better versions of themselves even when they're working in stressful careers |
| 1:48.0 | such as the health care industry where she works. |
| 1:52.4 | Dr. Sweep on a care industry where she works. |
| 1:53.0 | Dr. Sveana Chamon is a board certified cardiologist. |
| 2:00.0 | She is also the chief executive officer of Cardio Seeds and the host of the Cardio Seeds |
| 2:10.7 | and I am grateful for the fact that she actually interviewed me on the podcast. |
| 2:17.0 | So I'm really glad to both return the favor, but I would want her on it whether I had whether she had me |
| 2:26.7 | on or not because this is really really important stuff that she deals with. We can all gain from it whether or not we're in the |
| 2:36.3 | health profession because we all come in contact with the health professions and many |
| 2:41.6 | many of us even if we're not in health care are doing |
| 2:45.9 | stressful work that can apply her principles. So with that as an introduction, |
| 2:53.0 | Salana, I want to welcome you to rejuvenating |
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