Medical Staff Development - The Right Number

Truth-telling sounds pretty elementary. Most health care providers are truthful people. The problem as I see it is that most health care providers are so busy that they fail to recognize truth about themselves. Their focus is often on doing more and more. Knowing the truth about their professional goals requires time to reflect and ask the important questions about what gives meaning to the professional life. Though it is simply one example of the issue, establishing life balance in high performance professionals will significantly alter the calculation of what is the right number of physicians to have on the medical staff. Do we take the time to stimulate reflection? Do we encourage our caregivers to ask these key questions? Are the caregivers regarded as the engine of business or the healthy, balanced human beings that we want our own physicians to be? Is this care for the caregiver too expensive? Does it take too much time? Is it just not on the radar screen?