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June 20, 2024
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Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Melina Davis

Podcast: Melina Davis on Doctors Opening Up About Burnout

One of the big problems in healthcare is physician burnout. Patients don’t see doctors as people. Doctors don’t see themselves as people. Both see doctors as medical machines whose sole purpose is taking care of people who are sick or injured. Melina Davis, CEO and executive vice president of the Medical Society of Virginia, is out to change that with Save Haven.

SafeHaven is a not-for-profit program that offers confidential resources to doctors and other clinicians suffering from career fatigue, burnout and other mental health issues. In this podcast, hear how a workshop on physician burnout turned into a group therapy session for doctors, and then the chance to launch Safe Haven. Davis describes her aha moment in this exclusive podcast.

You can also read How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Melina Davis, where she talks about creating a place where doctors can decompress.

4sight Health originally published the podcast and Q&A in January 2023.

Read more Healthcare Revolutionaries profiles on 4sighthealth.com.

Profile: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Melina Davis

4sight Health’s David Burda interviews Melina Davis about what she thinks of physicians, strategy, and building a team to execute a strategy. Read the companion Q&A piece here.

 

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About the Author

David Burda

David Burda began covering healthcare in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since. Dave writes this monthly column “Burda on Healthcare,” contributes weekly blog posts, manages our weekly newsletter 4sight Friday, and hosts our weekly Roundup podcast. Dave believes that healthcare is a business like any other business, and customers — patients — are king. If you do what’s right for patients, good business results will follow.

Dave’s personnel experiences with the healthcare system both as a patient and family caregiver have shaped his point of view. It’s also been shaped by covering the industry for 40 years as a reporter and editor. He worked at Modern Healthcare for 25 years, the last 11 as editor.

Prior to Modern Healthcare, he did stints at the American Medical Record Association (now AHIMA) and the American Hospital Association. After Modern Healthcare, he wrote a monthly column for Twin Cities Business explaining healthcare trends to a business audience, and he developed and executed content marketing plans for leading healthcare corporations as the editorial director for healthcare strategies at MSP Communications.

When he’s not reading and writing about healthcare, Dave spends his time riding the trails of DuPage County, IL, on his bike, tending his vegetable garden and daydreaming about being a lobster fisherman in Maine. He lives in Wheaton, IL, with his lovely wife of 40 years and his three children, none of whom want to be journalists or lobster fishermen.

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