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 Healthcare Worker Shortage is Real. What Can Be Done About It? As an inspirational healthcare speaker, I know that it is never easy to deliver bad news. However, as we near 2023, the news is dismal. According to the National Association for Healthcare Quality report: “The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting that […]
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, 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, Inspirational Healthcare Speaker on Changes in the Nursing Profession
Who Needs to Care for the Caregiver? You. Me. All of Us. Delivering motivational keynote addresses to the healthcare industry on managing change in the nursing profession, I am struck not only by the enormous changes sweeping across the broad nursing landscape, but by the renewed awareness of caregivers as people. The new generation […]
