Creating Balance in Your Personal and Professional Life (Part 1 of 2)

Posted by Neil H. Baum, MD | Jun 2020

Neil H. Baum, MD, presented “Creating Balance in Your Personal and Professional Life (Part 1 of 2)” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in June, 2020.

How to cite: Baum, Neil H. “Creating Balance in Your Personal and Professional Life (Part 1 of 2)” June, 2020. Accessed Apr 2024. https://dev.grandroundsinurology.com/creating-balance-in-your-personal-and-professional-life-part-1-of-2/

Creating Balance in Your Personal and Professional Life (Part 1 of 2) – Summary:

Neil H. Baum, MD, Clinical Professor of Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, discusses how important it is for physicians to create balance in their personal and professional lives. Dr. Baum offers five suggestions for how urologists can do this in order to avoid burnout. He highlights why doctors have such problems balancing life and career and discusses what happens when they are out of balance. The solutions that Dr. Baum offers are: continue learning, be ethical, set priorities, just say no, and make a difference.

For more commentary from Dr. Baum, visit his Improving Your Urology Practice page.

About The Author

Neil H. Baum, MD

Neil H. Baum, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also a retired urologic surgeon. Additionally, Dr. Baum serves as the Medical Advisor to Vanguard Communications Group. Dr. Baum is the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice - Ethically, Effectively, and Economically, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies, and has been translated into Spanish. He also wrote The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015. Dr. Baum was the columnist for American Medical News for more than 25 years. Dr. Baum also wrote the popular column, “The Bottom Line,” for Urology Times for more than 20 years. He is a requested speaker each year to the Practice Management Seminar for the American Urological Association (AUA), where he discusses techniques for making urology practices more efficient and more productive. He has written more than 9 books on practice management and over 250 peer-reviewed articles on various urologic topics. Dr. Baum is also the medical advisor to Vanguard Communications Group.

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