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When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude: 48 Laws of Power in the Business of Medicine

It has been a terrible day in the clinic- to top off a month of resignations of clinical staff. You finally sit down at your desk to complete a mound of paperwork, patient notes, and unread results only to find an email from the business department regarding your RVUs. The meeting goes sour as theyContinue reading “When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude: 48 Laws of Power in the Business of Medicine”

National Health Awareness: April 2022

I am cautiously optimistic that the COVID-19 numbers are staying down in our region. The worldwide data suggest a small uptick and a hybrid variant in the UK appears to be having a slower uptrend (variant was detected in my city the week of 24MAR). We will see what next month brings, but I amContinue reading “National Health Awareness: April 2022”

Burnout, retrospective

“No shit, there I was…” When a patient is riffing with us about their terrible situation, it often starts with “No shit, there I was…” and we listen because we know it will be a great story. So, “burnout… no shit, there I was” was not something that I dreamt of saying as a medicalContinue reading “Burnout, retrospective”