Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street

Hey ya'll! We're coming back from our hiatus for a special edition episode where I discuss the FTC ruling about noncompetes with non other than Ann Bittinger JD. Ann is a healthcare contract attorney who's my go to for all things physician contracts and we discuss what this means for you AND how to use it even while things are ambiguous and clear as mud.... You can find Ann at bit

Even if you have all your ducks in a row, negotiations can throw us something completely unexpected. One left-field comment can take the wind out of our sails and derail our plans. Instead of letting your brain pull an amygdala hijack and respond rashly, there is a safety lever that will allow us to respond in our best light. How do we respond to the unexpected without sabo

The pay gap in medicine is something we’re all too familiar with. While some of it is certainly systemic and structural - there is a mindset piece where we have to bring ourselves to the table. To get jobs and packages that align with our worth, we have to learn to ask for what we want. Between our societal and medical socialization, that can be hard to do, but not impossible.

Conversations are the lifeblood of all human interaction. Leading others and advocating for ourselves is impossible without having effective conversations. From the normal ones we don’t have to prepare for, to the sensitive ones we run over and over in our heads, getting good at conversations is a worthy investment. What sets a conversation up for success? How can we use conve

Having an exceptional clinical skill set doesn’t magically translate into great leadership in a world that’s evolving at breakneck speed. At some point we’ll find ourselves leading people whose jobs we don’t know how to do, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be effective leaders. Whether we’re working with different specialties or people with an entirely different s

When we try to wrap our heads around why leadership is so challenging, we’ll soon discover that the mindset piece is what gets in our way. Our mental state is the foundation upon which great leadership is placed, and being a great leader begins with our own relationship with ourselves. When that foundation is stuck in a reactive space, it’s hard for us to truly show up as ou

As physicians, we’re seen as leaders, but leading in an industry that has become more corporate is challenging. Even though we’re accomplished in our careers, administrative leadership doesn’t always come naturally to us. Adding to this the barriers we encounter as female physicians, leading well can be especially important. Unfortunately, we’re still using leadership te

As the physician landscape continues to change, how we practice medicine looks different to how it was done before. The more we normalize this change, the better off we’ll be and the more effectively we can advocate for ourselves. There’s so much room for us to do our jobs better and to make them more sustainable. In order to achieve that though, we have to get comfortable w

Our jobs naturally occupy a fair amount of our time and mental space. When that follows us off the clock, we’re letting work live rent free in our heads. Of course, there are times we’re brainstorming solutions creatively, but I’m talking about the silent vent sessions and brain tantrums that sap our energy and make work feel even harder. How do we stop thinking about w

In our negotiations, we’re typically laser focused on that particular job and how it aligns with our lives now, but sometimes we have to zoom out. Sometimes we have to take a 30,000 ft. view and ask ourselves - is this career consistent with the legacy we want to leave behind. In a perfect situation, we want to look back at our careers and express pride and joy with what we ac