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Podcast: Financial Residency
Episode: Financial Vitals: How Perfectionism In Medicine Spills Over Into Your Personal Finances
Description: Nobody's perfect. Everyone needs to take care of their mental health, including physicians. Perfectionism in medicine can spill over into physicians' personal finances. In this episode of the Finance for Physicians Podcast, Daniel Wrenne talks to Dr. Michael Myers about physician perfectionism. Michael is professor of clinical psychiatry at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center and author of eight books covering everything from physician suicide and mental health to physician marriages. Topics Discussed: • Tyranny of Perfectionism: Extreme perfection can affect productivity • Good Enough: Strive for excellence, but find and accept balanced portion • Human Humor: Welcome to med...