The Optimized Doctor
The Optimized Doctor
Time for a rest
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have...
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Sick call
A recent Medscape survey of physicians found that 85% said they had come to work sick in 2022.
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The ‘root cause’ visit
“How did we miss out on that?” “What?” my physician friend replied as we stood in line at the coffee cart. “Root cause. I mean, we invented this...
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Dignity
We've driven medicine to the efficient and left little of the dignity it seems.
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Dig like an archaeologist
He was a fit man in his 40s. Thick legs. Maybe he was long-distance walker? The bones of his right arm were more developed than his left – a right...
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‘I shall harm’
Nocebo, from the Latin “I shall harm,” is the dark counterpart to the placebo.
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“How long, how long to sing this song?”
I thought about my patient’s suffering and the brutal injustice of fate. It feels like it’s everywhere lately.
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One weird trick to fight burnout
Why do some older workers recharge daily and carry on while many younger ones say the daily grind is burning them out?
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The work after work
Are you a super doer, reluctant doer, admin denier, or admin avoider?
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‘We don’t want to be an inspiration’
Although acknowledgment is appreciated, the women I work alongside don’t need me to be inspired by them.
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To a perfect day
Attempting a perfect day or perfect surgery or a perfect pour over coffee is a fun game, but perfectionism has an insidious side.