Episode 13: Dr Ross McKean - The Concept Of The Medical Zombie, How To Climb The Medical Mountain Without Hazard And A Manifesto For Hope

On the episodes today I have the luck to be speaking with a real visionary - Dr Ross Mckean, GP Registrar in Cambridge, England  and founder of the medic-wellbeing organization, Medizom.  Ross has worked with healthcare professionals for some time now, and to quote his website,  to help 'escape the medic zombie apocalypse and be more human'. Medizom provides a conceptual view of potential troubles and hazards up ahead on the tortuous  road of medicine. Ross has spent several years piecing together the traits and characteristics of professional 'burnout' in medicine, and provides a navigation model to those early warning, 'red flag' hallmarks.  By architecting a spectrum and schematic view of how troubled and devastated we can be by the pain, suffering and fragmentation that medicine can deliver to our front door he has laid out a manifesto of hope during the episode. Ross has steadily built a community of like-minded medics who have shared their own paths up the ‘medical mountain’,  as Ross puts it. Ross has a history in medical education and the use of IT in medicine. During part 1, Ross kindly shares some of the incidents, scenarios and awakenings  he experienced which created this progressive shift in his thinking. For me, from being initially confused and skeptical to the principle of the so-called 'medical zombie', by the time I had finished my interview with Ross, my mindset on the theory of medizom had perhaps shifted somewhat. Please enjoy this thought-shifting and progressive interview with Dr Ross McKean

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All About Doctors Radio broadcasts depth-of-field conversations with inspirational role-models in medicine. I explore what makes the best of them 'tick', and what it is that specifically makes these guests the role-model and effective professional they are. Guests talk about the activities and passions in their lives which keep them floating above water and keeping 'evergreen' in a profession that associates itself with burnout and mental exhaustion. They give away the positive habits and strategies that keep them coming back for more every day. Can you become better by unpicking the excellence and know-how of your colleagues, therefore improving what you do even further? Join me, Will Mangar, a family primary care GP doctor in Kent, South East England, as i get a few more pointers on how these folk consistently get it right and use their super-powers to keep treading water! Its never been so tough out there to survive in the profession you once lived for....Check us out on allaboutdoctorsradio.com