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andrewspong: Patient sources of health information (HT...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:58:01 -0500

andrewspong:

Patient sources of health information (HT @Berci)

How patients learn today.

30 Second MD: How To Let Patients Know You Care

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:35:22 -0500

30 Second MD: How To Let Patients Know You Care

30 Second MD: How To Do A Warm Hand-off

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:22:00 -0500

30 Second MD: How To Do A Warm Hand-off

30 Second MD: How to Heal with Touch

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:58:08 -0500

30 Second MD: How to Heal with Touch

How To Greet Your Patients Like It’s Christmas Day

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:10:48 -0500

How To Greet Your Patients Like It’s Christmas Day

The 30 Second MD: Two Words I Tell Every Patient

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:01:00 -0500

The 30 Second MD: Two Words I Tell Every Patient

The Real Reason Why Doctors Burn Out

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:47:00 -0400

I walk into my office at 8:15 AM, down the last gulp of coffee, and logon.

Bang! A full inbox of messages is the starting gun. I make a couple of phone calls. Patients rolling in — here we go.

Patient, patient, message, a couple of labs, patient, patient, patient, getting behind on charting, someone needs to be added, stat message (!), doctor on the phone for you, patient, patient, reviewing labs with left hand while eating lunch with right. Afternoon patients already here including one who showed up a day early, patient, patient, haven’t even gotten to sending out biopsy letters yet. Running uphill. I feel like I’m gonna bonk.

More patients, more labs, patient holding on the phone. (Oh, yeah, I forgot I still have to pee.) Down the stretch now — making a few more phone calls, finishing emails, then hanging up my white coat. I bump into my next-door colleague on the way to the parking garage. “Oh, I didn’t know you were working today.”

We can only sprint like this for a few years. Then our knees give out.

And that’s why we burn out.

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