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Your Career: How to Negotiate Your Schedule

Donald E. Kennedy, DO, MBA, PhD, CPE, FAAFP

March 7, 2019


Summary:

An ER physician asks our careers consultant for suggestions on asking the supervisor for a better schedule over the desire to have a personal life.





An ER physician with an unpredictable schedule and the need for a better work-life balance wants to discuss the situation with the boss. Our careers consultant weighs in.

Donald E. Kennedy, DO, MBA, PhD, CPE, FAAFP
Donald E. Kennedy, DO, MBA, PhD, CPE, FAAFP

Dr. Don Kennedy writes to improve lives and is the only physician in the country practicing Motivational Medicine. His first published book and self-help program, 5 AM & Already Behind, was written on a dare by best selling author and friend, Michael Gerber (The E-myth). The story about finding your Bahbit™ was a number-one best seller on Amazon and published in three languages. Don has used 5AM in his medical practice and seminars to teach hundreds of patients and students how to achieve a healthy and purposeful life balance. He was also founder and CEO of three family medicine practices, set-up and managed urgent care centers, worked with migrants in the National Health Service Corp, and is a co-founder of the Mind, Body, and Soul Surfing Club ™.

His latest book, The Surfer’s Journey, is a research-based fable using Don’s love for Mother Ocean to motivate and develop socially conscious leaders he calls transformational heroes.

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