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Work-Life

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Assess Your Sleepiness
Work-Life Balance Quiz
Work-Life Assessment and Planning Tools 

Finding Balance

Coping with Your Crazy-Busy Life
Work-Life Balance: Tips to Gain Control
When and How to Say No
5 Research-Based Ways to Say "No"
Effectively Managing Technology so that it Doesn't Control You
Smartphone Users: Beware
The Power of Nature
Dr. Norm Rizk Remarks on Work-Life

Personal Productivity

Academic Biomedical Career Customization
Understanding Procrastination
Writing Productivity Problems
Time Management  

Spirituality

Spirituality and Health
Office for Religious Life
Compline Sunday evenings

Family

Family Quality Time
Better Parenting
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Spoiled
Nine Psychological Tasks for a Good Marriage
Making Step-Families Work
Physician Mothers and Breast Feeding
Effects of Stress on Family
Talking to Kids about Stress  

Work-Life and Physicians

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Physicians quickly realize that time is the most important resource that they have. Where have you placed YOU on your priority list?

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Setting priorities, learning to say no, delegating, and realizing that you can actually accomplish more by taking time for self-care, all lead to more time for fun.  Remember that word?

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Putting family and patients first, in conjuction with career and academic pressures, often come at the expense of sleep and personal well-being.

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Work toward personal and medical culture support for a fulfilling integrated work and home life - and in doing so improve patient care as well as personal satisfaction.

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Hip/Knee Pain: 10 Steps to Take Before Considering Surgery

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Palliative Care: Helping Patients Live Their Best Lives

Lynn’s husband Steve was diabetic and diagnosed with end stage renal disease 11 years ago. Without warning, Steve’s condition turned critical three years ago. Desperate for guidance and strength, Lynn was connected to April and the Palliative Care team at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.

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Improving Quality of Life through Hip Surgery

William Decker didn’t let a hip surgery slow him down for long. As an active 73-year-old golfer and grandfather, Decker was relieved to learn he could have hip surgery using the newer anterior approach. Dr. Christopher Mudd at MoBap is one of the limited number of orthopedic surgeons trained to perform this procedure. To learn more, click here.

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The Role of Rehab: Improving the Joint Replacement Patient’s Level of Function

If you’ve suffered from the discomfort and pain associated with bad knees or unstable hips, joint replacement surgery may be an option.

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On the Other Side of Knee Pain

Despite a range of health obstacles, 57-year-old Claire C. of Creve Coeur, Mo refuses to let anything limit of define her. “I’m not going to let anything stop me from doing the things I enjoy – and that includes my knees.”

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Ready to Move Forward: Nina's Story

Remember all the things that you used to do so easily, until your hip or knee started slowing you down? Now imagine doing those things again, with all the confidence in the world.

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Knee Surgery: Knowing What is Next

Why have knee replacement surgery?

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Hip Surgery: Support and Healing

What is hip replacement surgery?

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Joint Replacement Center

Why choose Missouri Baptist?

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