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Resilience and Burnout with Dr. George Mayzell

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Dr. George Mayzell joins us this week for a new episode of Healthcare Experience Matters. Dr. Mayzell is an acclaimed speaker, writer, and coach on the vitally import topic of resilience and burnout in medicine. 

He is a longtime contributor to Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) webinars and events and serves as a physician coach and speaker with HXF. We are honored to have him make his inaugural appearance on our new podcast

Dr. Mayzell provides us with some strong feedback on how resilience and burnout is influencing experiences for patients, providers, and the entire healthcare community. As we learn on today’s podcast, this is a subject that is very near and dear to his heart. 

As a board-certified internist and geriatrician, Dr. Mayzell was in clinical practice for a dozen years and saw the impact of burnout from the front lines. Dr. Mayzell left practice to work for several different hospitals and healthcare organizations, this includes time he spent serving as chief medical officer and running clinically integrated networks.

COVID-19, Burnout and Resilience

In recent years, Dr. Mayzell has been focused on physician and healthcare worker burnout. He dedicates much of his professional work to focusing on physician leadership and the patient experience. 

At the forefront of much of his work these days is writing, researching, and speaking about the effects of burnout. This has been a hotly debated topic of conversation in recent years, and the Covid-19 pandemic has seemingly brought even more attention to it.

“Burnout has been a hot topic for several years as we saw healthcare changing and not necessarily in good ways. These changes add stress, anxiety, and burnout not only to physicians but to just about everyone involved in healthcare,” Dr. Mayzell said. 

As we discussed on today’s podcast, the Covid-19 pandemic added to many of the already present risk factors in burnout and may continue to drastically change the “burnout conversation.”

“Now that we’re hopefully getting to the other side of Covid, I think we’re going to see that curve of burnout not only continue, but perhaps accelerate,” he said. 

Defining Resilience

Dr. Mayzell informs us that resiliency means a lot of things to a lot of different people. When it comes to resilience in healthcare, we really look at it as the ability to survive and prosper in what we know to be a very difficult environment.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition, resilience is, “the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress.”

Webster also defines it as, “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”

“Resilience is really about being able to survive and thrive despite the curveballs that are handed to you in healthcare,” Dr. Mayzell said. 

Workforce Engagement

Wellness means so many different things and has become somewhat of a catchphrase according to Dr. Mayzell. He tells us on today’s podcast that a better word for gauging well-being is “engagement.”

“We want to see physicians and healthcare workers re-engage into healthcare. We want to bring back some of the joy on why they went into healthcare in the first place,” Dr. Mayzell said.

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To learn more about Dr. Mayzell’s work on resilience and burnout, check out his latest book, The Resilient Healthcare Organization: How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout.

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Meet George Mayzell, MD, MBA

Dr. Mayzell has a passion for helping healthcare leaders, staff and physicians restore purpose and joy to their work. At the Healthcare Experience Foundation, Dr. Mayzell is working to innovate physician leadership development, build resilient and engaged physicians and providers, strengthen relationships between administration and medical staff, and develop patient-centered competencies.

As a physician, chief medical officer, senior leader, and now coach, Dr. Mayzell draws upon his extensive experience to help organizations create meaningful improvements that matter.

Before joining the Healthcare Experience Foundation team, Dr. Mayzell served in a variety of notable capacities over the years. He is the founder and president of Empowered Healthcare, the past Chief Clinical Officer for Vizient Southeast, has served as the SVP/CMO and Chief Clinical Integration Officer for AMITA Health in Chicago, has served as CEO of Health Choice (a PHO and CIN), as well as a SVP of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis.

In addition to more than 10 years of practice experience, Dr. Mayzell has dedicated more than 10 years of his life working in senior leadership positions for the University of Florida and Shands Hospital, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. He has held positions on the c-suite, as medical director and has worked through complexities such as care management redesign, clinical variation, clinical integration and physician leadership.

Dr. Mayzell has co-authored several books including “Leveraging Lean in Healthcare” and “Physician Alignment, as well as “Population Health”.

Dr. Mayzell is a board certified internist and geriatrician, having received his medical degree from The Rutgers News Jersey Medical School, and his MBA from Jacksonville University.

While Dr. Mayzell finds his role in administration and leadership fulfilling, he believes that there’s no greater fulfillment than helping health systems and physicians achieve their full potential.

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