There’s no denying that mistakes happen in medicine. When they do, what’s the next step? Business as usual is to deny and defend. Not only is this an adversarial process, it is also a lost opportunity to learn (and for the patient/family to fully und...

Sleep expert Mike Stone, MD joins us for a conversation about how to sleep well (and strategies to do it poorly!).  We cover: how sleep cleans your brain, alcohol, caffeine, a pragmatic approach to wearables, light exposure, the villainy of devices b...

  None of us are immune from the Fundamental Attribution Error – chalking up the behavior of others to their character rather than the situation in which they find themselves. In this episode, we tease out the details of this common bias, its negativ...

Habit change doesn’t have to be grand, spectacular, or a massive shift all at once. In fact, it may be better to start small, tiny, you might say. In this episode, Scott Weingart and I break down the methodology from BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits and give re...

Receiving a well thought out documentation phrase from a fellow clinician is almost as amazing as getting a pet chupacabra for your birthday.  What I love about documentation phrases (aka smart-phrases, dot-phrases, Dragon commands, etc) is that they...

My trauma charts used to look like a soup sandwich (you might want to click that link, just saying). The decision making and ED course were a tangled stream-of-consciousness wet hot mess. The eureka moment came when I read a hospitalist’s H&P on...

Chances are that you have a robust inner critic. You might even believe that self criticism and castigation are the only ways to excel. As a high level performer, you are not alone. In this episode, we break down the nature of inner criticism and sev...

Finding time to debrief challenging or difficult cases can feel nearly impossible amidst the tumult and task saturation of medical practice. The reality, however, is that it’s a necessity, not a nicety.  The post 75. Hot Debriefing appeared first on...

High blood pressure is not a flashy diagnosis, but this charting template explaining it to patients was my most used. By far. Unless a patient has hypertensive encephalopathy or evidence of other target-organ damage, we usually don’t think of high bl...

It doesn’t look like performance metrics are going away anytime soon. So why not make them a feature instead of a bug? Guest Bio: Shawn Dowling MD is the medical director of the Physician Learning Program at the University of Calgary and Clinical Con...