Anesthesiology - American Physician Institute

17/09/2024

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16/09/2024

🙌 🌟 Looking for new ways to approach encouragement in your practice? Dr. Jack shares how encouragement can be redefined to better support and uplift both patients and practitioners. Discover strategies to enrich your clinical approach and foster a more positive environment.👇
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Words are perishable goods. With time they lose color and flavor, either rot away or dry into small hard things. I was thinking about this when contemplating the word encouragement. It once was and again can be so much more than what we often take it to mean. In fact, encouragement can be a core

14/09/2024

🍁 Taking a board exam this fall? It's time to stop procrastinating and start studying. Dr. Jack shares 5 tips to help you minimize procrastination and maximize productivity. ⬇️
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Facing procrastionation is hard, but it can be done. Dr. Jack Krasuski provides 5 tips on how to avoid procrastinating when studying for your board exam.

12/09/2024

📚 🍁 If you're taking a board exam this fall, here's how to tailor your study plan to your specific learning style.
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Everyone has their own studying and learning style. Figure out how you learn and what study style works best for you when preparing for your Board Exam.

11/09/2024

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09/09/2024

⏰ Feeling stuck in a procrastination loop? It's time to break free and make progress with purpose! Check out Dr. Jack's latest blog for actionable tips to overcome delays and boost productivity. From setting realistic goals to creating a motivating environment, Dr. Jack offers strategies to help you turn procrastination into progress.🔻
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My ongoing project of letting go of procrastination is going well… As I typed the previous sentence, I paused to think, "How well?" My first thought was "About 50%,” but as I had that thought, it seemed off. My next thought was, "Well, maybe 33%", and as I experienced myself thinking that, I tho...

02/09/2024

🤔 Do you have trouble making decisions? Here, Dr. Jack breaks down why that may be and how to overcome indecision.
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Modern life confronts us with many choice points and, at each, many options. Some choices are trivial, such as which toilet paper to buy, and others are life-altering, such as whether I should marry this person I’ve been dating. Some individuals are better at making decisions, that is, they make t...

01/09/2024

🔥 Feeling like you're teetering on burnout? Here's how to avoid physician burnout and find a better balance.
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I start with a quick review of vicious circles because physician burnout has elements of this pernicious phenomenon. Many outcomes occur from the effects of positive feedback loops, that is, the emergence of some variable leads to changes in the system that lead to further increases in the value of....

30/08/2024

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29/08/2024

🗓️ 📚 If you're taking the ABA ADVANCED exam in January, here's how to start preparing now. ⬇️
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Are you prepping for the ABA ADVANCED board exam? Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the ADVANCED exam.

26/08/2024

😰 Dealing with an anxious patient? Dr. Jack discusses how "clinical awareness" of "chronic anxiety can help the clinician better engage the anxious patient." Learn more here.👇
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Today I highlight the loss of life engagement that occurs with chronic anxiety. In addition to the distress that arises directly from anxiety’s physical symptoms, such as muscle tension, dyspepsia, impaired concentration, and impaired sleep, and from its mental symptom of worry ruminations, anothe...

22/08/2024

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19/08/2024

🎂 What drives direct and indirect self-control? Dr. Jack discusses how you can help your patients avoid "aversive behaviors." 👇
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I remember the exact moment I decided to write this post. I found myself in the kitchen. I saw myself open a cabinet and grab a bag of butter cookies. I remember thinking, “I really shouldn’t be doing this,” as I next reached for a jar of fig preserves to slather on my cookies. “I’m

13/08/2024

💙 Communicating as a couple can be difficult. But good communication with your partner can lead to a better personal life, which can, in turn, help reduce stress in your professional life. Here, Dr. Jack discusses ways you can better communicate as a couple.👇
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All of us who get into a long-term relationship do so because of an initial attraction and comfort with our partner. Because of this initial good fit and good feelings, the relationship continues and deepens. And who wouldn’t want the bliss to continue? Despite these hopes, though, the relationshi...

09/08/2024

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06/08/2024

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05/08/2024

🛤️ "Motivation needs life goals, not just process goals." Learn how to help your patients, and perhaps yourself, redirect slip-ups and keep a larger goal in mind.
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Today, I discuss a common and debilitating cognitive bias and emotional response that derails our patients (and sometimes ourselves) when trying to maintain positive life changes. Consider these questions: A person engaging in intermittent fasting has notable success in losing weight and increasing....

01/08/2024

📚 Are you taking a board exam this fall? Here's how to get the most out of group study so you're ready for exam day.
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Knowing how to study for board exams is crucial to your success. Preparing for board exams can be done alone or with a partner or group.

29/07/2024

🤯 Dr. Jack says the main enemy of kindness is stress. Is stress making you unkind?
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I think almost everyone would wish to be kinder than they are. (Sometimes it’s the people who already are very kind who are most distressed by their lapses in kindness.) Today I postulate that the main enemy of kindness is stress. Before I explain let me focus on features of kindness. Kindness tow...

22/07/2024

🔥 Facing burnout? It's not unusual for physicians. Dr. Jack says fighting burnout starts by taking stock of your life and "stop blaming yourself for an unsustainable fit."🔻
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From my varied conversations with clinicians, I have realized that work-related burnout is usually only a part of a larger life burnout. That is the sense of overwork, time hunger, limited agency, and perceived futility that leads to burnout (which then, of course, circles back in vicious loops to e...

15/07/2024

💙 What's your underused clinical superpower? Your presence. Dr. Jack discusses how to be with your patients "in their hurt to help them heal."
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As clinicians, we meet hundreds or thousands of patients every year. What they all have in common, it is safe to assume, is they are hurting. I’ve not yet had someone see me professionally to ensure their continued “optimal performance and well-being.” Today, I focus on how to “be” with so...

13/07/2024

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08/07/2024

✌️Can boredom be good? Dr. Jack discusses the possible benefits of boredom in your life.
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Boredom is a common aspect of human life. Varied and even contradictory understandings about it abound. As Jon Kabat-Zinn said, “When you pay attention to boredom it becomes incredibly interesting.” It is, if nothing else, a complex phenomenon. Questions about boredom multiply: Is it a feeling o...

04/07/2024

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Many years ago, a friend shared an idea that has stuck with me these years. He said that he uses the Independence Day holiday as a time to reflect and make necessary changes in his life, changes that will lead to his “personal independence.” This idea means different things to different people. ...

02/07/2024

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01/07/2024

⌛ Are you a chronic procrastinator? Dr. Jack talks about ways to ease out of procrastination to be more productive.👇
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Procrastination. We all experience it to some degree. If you never have, please write to me and let me how you’ve managed without it. There is a lot written about it, and much advice given is somewhat helpful. But there is a conceptualization of procrastination that is rarely presented, yet this c...

30/06/2024

📚 If you're preparing for a board exam, it's important to study. But...how much study time is too much? Here's how to decrease study time and increase impact.👇
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No matter what exam you are preparing for, it is important to have a study plan in place that will help you get the maximim return for your time.

24/06/2024

⌛ If you're having trouble breaking the "procrastination cycle," you're not alone. Dr. Jack discusses ways to ease out of procrastination and increase productivity. 🔻
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Procrastination. We all experience it to some degree. If you never have, please write to me and let me how you’ve managed without it. There is a lot written about it, and much advice given is somewhat helpful. But there is a conceptualization of procrastination that is rarely presented, yet this c...

23/06/2024

💙 Taking a board exam this fall? Finding it difficult to start studying? Dr. Jack discusses why you may be procrastinating on your board exam prep and how you can overcome study avoidance.👇
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Procrastination is a type of avoidance, and avoidance is a common strategy used by many to cope with unpleasant life situations such as studying for boards