63 | Dr. Olivia Ong on disability, burnout & pain/rehabilitation medicine

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After a severe car accident in 2008, Dr. Olivia Ong was told she would never walk or practice again. As a paraplegic her dreams were shattered. After an intensive three-year recovery process, she walked again. Today she shares her experience with others.
Dr. Olivia Ong, now known as the Heart-Centred Doctor, is a professional speaker, a published author and established pain physician. She runs programs helping doctors transform their lives, moving from burnout to brilliance, and is about to write her second book “Radical Resilience”.
Dr. Ong’s authentic and warm approach has made her a sought-after speaker and online educator. Being able to speak from her own unique life experiences gives her presentations a deeply authentic feel.
Dr. Ong has been featured in and written for Thrive Global, Yahoo Finance, International Business Times Singapore, and Australian Business Journal. Dr. Ong has appeared in media regularly such as Sky News, Studio 10, and ticker TV. She has spoken at industry leading events including Australasian New Zealand College of Anaesthesia and Faculty of Pain Medicine. Originally from Singapore, Dr. Ong now resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and two young children.

In this episode, we discuss the severe car accident outside the hospital that left her paralysed from the waist down, her intensive recovery from this, vicarious trauma and her journey with burnout, symptoms of burnout and recovery, and her work in pain/rehabilitation medicine combined with life coaching.
As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at [e-mail].

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As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at [e-mail].

Audio credit:
Bliss by Luke Bergs https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/e9aXhBQDT9Y

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1. Olivia Ong (00:00:00)

2. Choosing medicine (00:01:17)

3. Medicine before the significant accident (00:04:30)

4. The accident (00:10:02)

5. Intensive rehabilitation (00:18:27)

6. Burnout post-exams (00:27:13)

7. Pain fellowship (00:29:17)

8. Symptoms of burnout (00:32:00)

9. Vicarious trauma (00:36:47)

10. Radical resilience in burnout (00:39:23)

11. Recovery from burnout (00:41:49)

12. sustaibility in work-life (00:52:25)