These days, this is considered Extreme Leadership: If the team is failing, the leader is failing. As one watches support dwindle, you begin to cover down. To cover down means to taking on the duties of your fallen teammates. In medicine, our medical assistants assist the physician in multiple tasks. Prior authorizations, durable medical equipment,Continue reading “Lessons From Covering Down”
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Path to Homestead Part 3 (Garden and Harvest Stuff)
This first post is both for my own reference and to chronicle the thought processes, events, choices made, and lessons learned while developing our garden and livestock. The next post in a week will detail the home and barns. There are a million ways to plant crops from raised beds and direct sowing to aquaponics.Continue reading “Path to Homestead Part 3 (Garden and Harvest Stuff)”
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”
Returning to Health During and After the Holidays
Thanksgiving food coma, Christmas advent calendars, New Years hangovers. There are so many times during the holidays that overindulgent habits can derail our progress towards health. This is a reality of American culture. No one is here to make you feel bad about that, just here to help you get back to health when theContinue reading “Returning to Health During and After the Holidays”
Living the Dream
While in the Military, we would use phrases to express the overwhelming nature of certain missions or roles that we served. When times were intensely dis-pleasant, we would say things like “embrace the suck” to express the need to soldier on through to accomplish the mission. When leadership would hear this term, however, it wasContinue reading “Living the Dream”
Carrots, Sticks, and Jedi Mind Tricks – Getting to Yes for Physicians
“Getting to Yes” is a book describing negotiation techniques to reach a mutually enriching outcome. This is in contrast to the “Art of the Deal” approach to negotiation which maximally benefits one side. Physicians must draw from negotiation techniques to maximally partner with our patients. Simply put, the conceptual framework of using carrots, sticks, andContinue reading “Carrots, Sticks, and Jedi Mind Tricks – Getting to Yes for Physicians”
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