Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital Bellevue. What images does the title bring to your mind? Ten Days in a Mad-House? Perhaps the most famous — and infamous — hospital in the United States. In this well-paced, engrossing history and biography of the storied institution, David Oshinsky lays out…
Comments closedA curated list of top 5 articles on physician burnout for the week of October 1, 2019, with a theme: the EHR.
Comments closedA weekly roundup of selected articles on physician burnout, for the week of September 15, 2019.
Comments closedGuest Post by Dr. Rajeev Kurapati Burnout among medical professionals is an epidemic, and it’s impacting nearly every aspect of healthcare. For oncologists and practitioners working with cancer patients or other patients navigating difficult or terminal diseases, burnout can be especially insidious. One reason burnout can be so insidious is that even many medical professionals…
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Spoiler Alert: Contains minor spoilers for the memoir “Educated” by Tara Westover “You seem very angry,” I say to my patient. It’s a basic technique in our physician tool chest, but I’d forgotten to try it—reflection. He hesitates. Surprise crosses his face. “I am,” he says. “But not at you.” I allow the space of…
Comments closedGuest post by Leah Walsh In this guest post, author Leah Walsh explains what it means if you are one of the 20% of the human population to have a personality trait now established as “highly sensitive”, and how that might affect you if you work in a caregiving profession. Be sure to read through…
Comments closedWelcome to Episode 4 of The Prior Authorization Games: where the odds are never in your favor. In this, Episode 4, I explore: What motivates doctor’s to work for insurance companies? And in case you missed the prior episodes of The Prior Authorization Games: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 The call rang through, and…
Comments closedIn a recent talk I gave for colleagues, I ventured outside the box. I searched for a metaphor to make cancer treatments easy to understand. Around the same time, it so happened my kids decided we needed to re-watch all of The Avengers movies at home. (in order – of course). Here’s where you get…
Comments closedHappy week of International Women’s Day 2019 (IWD2019)! In the spirit of this year’s IWD2019 theme, #BalanceforBetter, I pulled together this collection of posts from and about women in medicine. I hope you will draw inspiration from them for your own lives and practices. 1. Being a Woman, by Dr. Anne Malatt An uplifting reflection…
Comments closedIn celebration of Valentine’s Day this week, it seemed fitting to put together a post on the concept of love in medicine. Only…there’s not many of us out there writing on the topic. After a google search of “love in medicine” and “love and doctoring”, I found the following three posts, and have included one…
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