PRE-CHARTING: Small Investment, Big Benefits (UPDATED)
UPDATE: As of January 1st, 2021, there are E/M changes to outpatient services that will base billing on the total time spent on, or medical decision-making based on,…
BARRIER REMOVAL: A paradigm shift to clinical wellness
If we, as medical professionals, can just make the time to grab a 10-minute session of mindfulness, then burnout levels will subsequently start to drop, right? Or maybe,…
3 BURNOUT STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT TODAY
Perhaps with a few months of practicing medicine in this “pandemic-era” under your belt, you are feeling like you are taking on water and sinking fast, aka BURNOUT? Or,…
HIPPOCRATIC HYPOCRISY
Unsolicited opinion warning: I see a lot of Hippocratic hypocrisy when I look around medicine. During our training and careers, we are laser-focused on the clinical skills needed…
CHOOSE YOUR PATH: STATUS QUO OR PROSPERITY
Here’s the message that I want to help spread: You get to make choices about which path you take during your PA career. You either choose a Path…
TREADING WATER
“AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT” VERSION: Working in medicine, pre-pandemic, felt like TREADING WATER: Dynamic, exhausting and with dire consequences of not being able to keep up with…
NATIONAL PHYSICIAN SUICIDE AWARENESS DAY
September 17th was National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. An estimated 400 physicians commit suicide per year, which accounts for more that one per calendar day. It is assumedly-safe to…
PANDEMIC-FRIED SOUL: My (latest) Burnout Story
“WTF??!!” — This was how my pandemic burnout was manifesting. It seemed like every new email, organization-wide protocol change, “red zone” area, COVID-19 related symptom, or essentially anything…
Giving (And Receiving) Thanks
As the worldwide pandemic rages on, Americans have arrived at one of our favorite holidays: Thanksgiving. For some, it is about food and football, but for others, it…