The Work Schedule That Prevents Burnout
Burnout is influenced by a seemingly infinite combination of variables. An optimal schedule alone isn’t the key to preventing it, but maybe a good …Read More
The $64,000 Question: How Can Hospitalists Improve Their HCAHPS Scores?
Everywhere I go these days, one of the top questions on the minds of hospital leaders and hospitalists alike is, “How can we improve …Read More
But He’s a Good Doctor…
The sudden resignation of White House staff secretary Rob Porter got me to thinking.
Let me say up front this post isn’t about politics. And …Read More
Augh! I Just Got Laid Off! What Now?
Wait a minute. Isn’t there an ongoing national shortage of hospitalists? Don’t most hospital medicine groups have trouble recruiting enough providers? You wouldn’t think …Read More
More Thoughts About Hospitalist Burnout
I wrote about physician burnout and well-being in the July 2017 version of this column, and am still thinking a great deal about those issues. In …Read More
Making the Implicit Explicit
Last month, I wrote about some interesting workplace trends, in particular about how the implied compact between U.S. workers and their employers is evolving rapidly. …Read More
New hospitalist unit has stellar patient satisfaction scores
It’s very unusual for hospitalists to achieve top quartile performance on the Physician Communication domain of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and …Read More
What We Expect and What We Get from Work
Are American workers becoming happier with less? An interesting article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal reported on the findings of a recent survey of U.S. workers …Read More