Episode 11 - Professor Stephen Trceziak on Compassionomics -why compassion matters in healthcare.

Beneath the Armour

English - May 21, 2021 21:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode 10 - Dr Mark Cross on being an anxious psychiatrist and why it's okay that your patients know you're a human too.

Next Episode: Episode 12 - Amy Sherer - Midwifery, Lactation Consultancy and the power of informing women correctly.

Today’s guest is Stephen Trzeciak, Professor of Medicine and Chairman and Chief of the Department of Medicine at Cooper University Health, Camden, New Jersey.

Stephen is a practicing intensivist and self-confessed “research nerd” who has amassed over 100 publications in the medical literature and a whopping 15,000 citations for his work.

In today’s episode we talk about Stephen’s book “Compassionomics: The Revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference.”

The book is a user-friendly narration of a systematic literature review him and his colleague, Dr Anthony Mazzarelli completed in which they gathered all available data from the research literature on the importance of empathy and compassion in a variety of healthcare outcomes.

The book is simply phenomenal and it is undeniable that developing compassionate care is not only possible, but also essential to improve patient outcomes and also help with the crisis of burnout amongst healthcare professionals.

As a true leader, Stephen shows a clear acumen for research knowledge combined with a willingness to be open and vulnerable in our conversation with his own journey into compassion and self-compassion.

Some key points from the conversation to tempt you in…

-Stephen discusses the research showing it takes less than one minute to demonstrate effective compassion in medical interactions with patients.

-He discusses the three core components of burnout, how lower compassion can actually be responsible and not a result of this.

-He discusses how mindset and beliefs around compassion matter - you've got to believe that you can do it, that you have time to do it, and that it can work.

-His own experience of burnout and what he started doing about it.

-Why compassion is beneficial for both the giver and receiver.

Key Links for Stephen:

His book, Compassionomics: https://www.compassionomics.com/

Google Scholar for his publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9aod280AAAAJ

Stephen on Twitter: @StephenTrzeciak