Scott Burrows, Healthcare Resilience Speaker
Healthcare Resilience is More than Dollars and Cents As a healthcare resilience and overcoming adversity speaker, it was interesting to read a recent piece (February 7, 2023) by physician and healthcare expert, Sanjay Saxena titled, “For US Hospitals, Resilience Requires Tough Choices.” “Even before the pandemic, there were healthy provider organizations, ones that were […]
Scott Burrows, Inspirational Healthcare Speaker
“How can I be inspired, when no one cares?” “Everyone of us said if we could go back, we would choose a different career.” – Emergency room physician in the Bay Area, who recently polled a group of doctors about their jobs. As a motivational healthcare speaker who has spoken in front of […]
Scott Burrows, Inspirational Healthcare Speaker
The World Doesn’t “Get” Your Biggest Fear Given my work as an inspirational healthcare speaker, I have the ongoing privilege of talking to healthcare workers throughout the country. Having once placed my life and recovery in the hands and hearts of medical providers and a team of dedicated healthcare workers, I came to […]
Scott Burrows, Health and Safety Motivational Speaker
Resiliency Demands Flexibility As a health and safety motivational speaker with a strong focus on healthcare, I deeply feel for the unsung heroes who brought us through the pandemic. However, though the outside world sees the risks in healthcare as being “over,” nothing could be further from the truth. Stress is at an […]
Scott Burrows, Inspirational Healthcare Speaker
Overcoming the Sense of Overwhelm Long before I became an inspirational healthcare speaker, my affection for the healthcare community was sealed after the accident where I went from being a martial artist and Division 1 football player to a quadriplegic. I was incredibly lucky; a team of healthcare professionals saved my life and then […]
Scott Burrows, Healthcare Speaker for Nurses Week
Our ‘Superheroes’ in Healthcare Need Our Compassion “In compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there.” – Karen Armstrong, Author and scholar Recent research as to healthcare worker stress underscores what I have been saying for many years in my […]
Scott Burrows, Creating Resilient Healthcare Teams Speaker
What Can We Expect for Healthcare This Year? Change. What do I predict? Change, lots of it. As a motivational speaker on the topic of managing change and creating resilient healthcare teams, I can forecast that nobody knows exactly what lies ahead. Am I hedging my bets? Not really. Don’t take this vision of […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Healthcare Speaker
It’s Time for Me to Return a Favor “A lot of doctors and nurses are exhausted and overwhelmed. Like many of us, they thought COVID vaccines would get us closer to life as normal. That hasn’t happened. What has happened is burnout in the medical profession” – Yuki Noguchi, NPR (September 15, 2021) […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Speaker on Grit in Healthcare
There is no Medicine Like Grit In my motivational presentations on Grit for healthcare organizations, my audiences are sometimes puzzled when I stress the importance of grit in every aspect of medicine and patient care. The relationship between grit and healthcare is stronger than you might imagine. The Predictor From physicians in training, to […]
Scott Burrows, Healthcare Industry Motivational Speaker
Healthcare Employee Burnout Doesn’t Cure Itself As a healthcare motivational speaker, I know the healthcare industry is going through one of the most difficult periods of low morale in decades. It is not just the pandemic, but a changing landscape that includes ever-changing insurance reimbursement issues, new software and systems, coding challenges, compensation issues, […]
