Operate with Zen
While incredibly rewarding and honored vocations, careers in medicine and surgery are fraught with stress, burnout and challenges in work-life balance. OWZ is intended to open dialogue about a mindful approach to surgery - to create a space where physicians and surgeons can enhance their life's work and life experience with a focus on presence, purpose and practical skills. OWZ combines didactic-like monologues to provide baseline information and available scientific data on practical topics like time management, sleep hygiene and burnout; as well as interviews with surgeons and experts to share what works and doesn't work in their daily routines.
Operate with Zen
41. Joy in the Service of Others with Dr. Paul Maroni
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Phil Pierorazio
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Season 4
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Episode 6
Paul Maroni is a urologic oncologist at University of Colorado in Denver. He also runs the American Urological Association course on “Winning the Battle Against Burnout.” Paul is also an extremely thoughtful and mindful surgeon, physician, and educator. In this episode of OWZ, we tackle a lot more than burnout. We discuss extreme ownership of the good and bad that occurs in our surgical practices, we talk about putting successes and failures into perspective, and, in Paul’s own words, we seek to find “joy serving others.” We would be lying if we said everyday as a surgeon is amazingly positive. But everyday can be amazing with the right perspective and approach. (Music Credit: Sunshine, Simon Jomphe Lepine.)