Back in 2016, my hospital, also my employer, changed the EMR. I was fully integrated into another EMR, so changing was not on my to-do list in the later part of my career as a diabetologist. As you would expect, the transition was a nightmare and took …
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Health care needs new presentation techniques
“So, if you look at this table, you can see that group X had a small but statistically significant increase in mortality over group Y. What does that tell us? It suggests that maybe there is some signal that intervention A is better than intervention B…
Doctors on TV: today vs. 20 years ago
I’ll admit it. I’m a medical-TV junkie, addicted to 21st-century doctor and hospital dramas (most of which are now streaming on Netflix and other services). Although some physicians are bothered by sensationalized depictions of their profession, I appr…
Doctor: You were strong. You are still strong today.
You were strong in college You were strong enough to get through weed-out classes in undergrad. You were strong enough to balance the extra-curricular activities and clinical shadowing expected of you while crushing a 21-hour semester. You were stron…
What would an optimal single-payer health care system look like?
Next in a series. The Healthcare Incentives Framework helps show how to fix incentives in health care systems. It starts by enumerating the five jobs we expect a health care system to do for us and then identifies which parties in the health care syste…
The secret to travel doctor success? Bring your family.
I recently returned from my second extended stay in New Zealand with my family. The entire experience was wonderful, but perhaps our most memorable day began with our three teenage sons waking up early to surf in the South Pacific Ocean. Once we had ou…
Physicians are usually adulting in every other aspect of their life except money
This week my wife and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary. It made me think about how my life has changed from when I was a single freshman in college. A time when I didn’t always do the right thing. I knew it was against both the law and school …
3 reasons every physician investor should consider self-storage as part of their alternative investment portfolio
We talk with a lot of physicians every day who ask us a simple question. “Why should I invest in self-storage?” Obviously, as a self-storage operator, we are biased, but there are three data points that we believe make this a fantastic asset class fo…
7 reasons why it’s hard to be kind
Why do so many of us (meaning me) need to be reminded to act with kindness? Why can’t we “just do it”? Yesterday, a friend asked me why we don’t celebrate World Kindness Day every day. I believe that’s a wonderful idea. Bu…
Doctors shouldn’t be horse whisperers
I scribbled my signature on a pharmaceutical rep’s iPad today for some samples of Jardiance, a diabetes drug that now has expanded indications, according to the Food and Drug Administration. This drug lowers blood sugar (reduces HbA1c by less than 1 po…
