Hi! My name is Peter Baum, D.O.
I am a husband, dad, family medicine physician, and physician coach.
I help physicians find fulfillment and create a sustainable life and career path. I’ve helped more than 90 physicians do just that! I look forward to helping you and others.
My family and I live in the San Diego area, and I work as Clinic Medical Director at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in a rural area outside of the city, where I also completed service through the National Health Service Corps.
Prior to medicine...
...I ran volunteer programs for at-risk youth, then lived and worked in Quito, Ecuador, at an international development organization working with USAID in Ecuador, Haiti, and Sierra Leone. Then I became a high school biology teacher at an American school in Quito. After trying those fields first, I was ready to commit to my childhood dream of becoming a physician.
In residency and my early years as an attending...
I gave what felt like everything to become the best physician I could be. I was striving to serve my patients with 120% of what I had to give; trying to address nearly all the needs of every patient in the short 15- to 20-minute visits we were allotted. Working at a federally qualified health center, my patients have complex medical and socioeconomic needs that make my line of work both rewarding and challenging.
Like many physicians, I became disenchanted with medicine and experienced burnout and moral injury early in my career, first in residency and later as an attending.
I was struggling to maintain work-life balance, and was not showing up at home as the husband and dad I wanted to be.
I was always preoccupied with work or my never-ending to-do list. Unconsciously, I was blaming my job for my discontent, blaming myself for not being able to be an “efficient” physician, and even believing that I wasn’t a good husband and dad because I couldn’t seem to find a way to get home earlier after work. At times, I felt powerless and that I lacked autonomy in my career. I felt trapped in a dysfunctional healthcare system.
Through physician coaching, I began training my mind to become more intentional and think in ways that generate the feelings, actions, and results that I want in my life.
Rather than reacting and indulging in the overwhelm that I felt consumed by, I transformed my life and became empowered to begin crafting a sustainable career path for myself.
I can help you do the same. I’m happy to help you and others!
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