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Time Management is a Myth: Manage Priorities Instead
Time Management is a MythThere is no such thing as time management.You and I get 24 hours in each day – 168 of them in a week. No more and no less. The seconds in an hour are a fixed resource that no one can manipulate or manage or finagle or...
Batch Processing and Patient Flow: Get Home On Time This Week
Batch Processing, Patient Flow and the Science of How to Get Home On TimeDo you find yourself spending too much time on things that have nothing to do with seeing patients – and then getting home later than you would like?Do you notice that for...
Physician Burnout Can Kill You: CHD Is Just One Way
Physician Burnout and the risk of CHDA new research paper published in the journal “Psychosomatic Medicine” in 2012 is showing a solid link between Burnout and the risk of CHD for the first time. This new information proves a connection that has...
Physician Burnout and the Enlightened CFO
Physician Burnout and the Power of an Enlightened CFOWhat your CFO doesn’t know about physician burnout is hurting you right now. They are pounding the boardroom table for projects that only increase the stress for the front line care...
Prevent Physician Burnout With These Mobile Apps
Prevent Physician Burnout with a Mobile App? … you betcha … here are my two favoritesForget Angry Birds and other mobile apps that do a great job of helping you waste time. And set aside for now the apps that help you find information and...
Physician Wellness: Why It's Such a Struggle
In response to the chronic epidemic of physician burnout, there is a lot of talk about Physician Wellness these days. Hospitals and groups are being encouraged to establish a physician wellness committee and do something, anything, for the doctors....
The Physician Friendly Organization Scorecard
Is YOUR organization Physician Friendly?In my work helping hundreds of over-stressed doctors recover from burnout here is one of the hardest parts: A coaching client and I work together to stop the downward spiral and get their energy and...
Physician Survey 2013 – Physician Burnout and Stress in Healthcare
Physician Survey 2013 ResultsLast month we surveyed our HappyMD community on a number of physician burnout and stress in healthcare related questions. Thank you for your participation and here are the results.I am personally fascinated by your...
Disruptive Physician Toolkit
Disruptive Physician Toolkit – how to raise your concerns and avoid being labeled“Disruptive Physician” is one of the most misused terms in healthcare these days.In many organizations, those two words have become the c-suite’s trump card to...
Patient Satisfaction and P4P – Three Things Doctors Need to Know
Patient Satisfaction and Pay For Performance in Healthcare ( P4P ) – three things all doctors need to know.In these early days of Pay for Performance in healthcare reimbursement (P4P), as the size of your paycheck begins to reflect your...
Are Physicians the Canary in the Coal Mine of Medicine
Back in the day, coal miners always carried a canary with them in a small cage whenever they would go down in the mine. The canary is a very talkative bird, always singing and tweeting in a constant background noise. Canaries have one more...
Work Life Balance Planning Formula 1 + 1 = 53
One of the biggest stressors for my physician clients is finding some work life balance in your busy week. We are always taught that our patient’s needs come first and we are never shown the “Off” switch on our doctor programming … so it is...
