Changing careers in medicine? Ask yourself, not everyone else

Deciding on a career change can turn into polling everyone you know until someone says what you want to hear. Lauren Fine, an allergist-immunologist and founder of Permission to Change, felt that pull when she moved from mostly clinical work into medical education and later into coaching. This episode is based on her article "How to stop asking for permission and decide for yourself," published on KevinMD. You will hear why you, not your family or colleagues, decide the "shoulds" about what a doctor should be, and why she believes you are never truly ready until you do it. She explains how coaching differs from mentoring, and why "what" questions work better than "why" questions, which stir up emotion. She also describes burnout as not getting back what you put in, which sometimes calls for changing how you work rather than what you do. Press play to hear why she starts with a small, reversible change, and why it helps to find someone who asks the right questions instead of granting permission.

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