Tag Archives: physician burnout
Words We Should Stop Using in Healthcare
A couple of weeks ago, I was struck by a tweet from our friends @savvy_coop that encouraged us to stop saying “we are all patients”. It got me thinking about other terms/phrases in healthcare that we should stop using like “non-adherent patient”. This week on the #hcldr tweetchat, I thought we would discuss these types […]
Recapturing Public Compassion & Empathy for Frontline Healthcare Workers
Over the US Thanksgiving holiday, a photo of an ER doctor comforting a COVID-19 patient became the top story on many news outlets. The photo is heartbreaking and captures the struggle faced by patients and the frontline healthcare workers taking care of them. Both are suffering alone. At the start of the pandemic, there was […]
The Forgotten Epidemics During COVID-19
The world’s attention is justifiably focused on battling the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to ravage indiscriminately across the globe. There are, however, three other epidemics that we were dealing with prior to COVID-19 that are at risk of being forgotten: The Opioid epidemic The Obesity epidemic The Physician Burnout/Mental Health epidemic All three have been […]
Reconnecting to Joy in Work
Our Purpose Here: Reconnecting to Joy in Work in December and Every Day of the Year Post by Madge Kaplan, Director of Communications, IHI | Host and Producer, WIHI You don’t have to look far to find media coverage of physician burnout. With growing evidence of burnout among nurses, too, reporters, health care leaders, mental health […]
Workplace Apathy
One of the hardest challenges as a leader is recognizing and addressing team apathy. There is almost nothing worse for productivity than people who no longer caring about their peers, the organization or the quality of their work. Overt apathy is easy to spot, but at work, most prefer to avoid direct confrontation and as […]
Burnout
Blog post by Robert J. Mahoney, M.D., SFHM and Chuck Webster, M.D., M.S. Like to a bad physician Fallen sick, thou’rt out of heart: nor cans’t prescribe For thine own case the draught to make thee sound. – Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Since […]
Healthcare Hacks (aka workarounds) – Good, Bad or Necessary?
Blog post by Colin Hung. Last week was the inaugural Health IT Expo (#HITExpo) – an event I helped to organize along with good friends John Lynn @techguy, Shahid Shah @ShahidNShah and Brian Rosenberg @bgrosenberg1. The premise behind the event was to bring together different parts of the Health IT ecosystem to collaborate in meaningful […]
Healthcare Leadership
Blog post by Justin Smith MD. Introduction by Colin Hung. This week on #hcldr we have yet another amazing guest host – Justin Smith MD @TheDocSmitty. Dr. Smith is a pediatrician, the Medical Advisor for Digital Health and the Director of Primary Care Innovation for Cook Children’s in Fort Worth, Texas. He has an active […]
Staying Optimistic
Blog post by Colin Hung This week marks the beginning of very interesting time in world politics. Regardless of whether you support Mr. Trump or not, there can be no doubt that his Presidency will usher in a time of tremendous change. I don’t believe anyone can predict what will happen in the next four […]
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