There is no doubt that handing over care of a patient to another clinician is potentially fraught with peril. After all, it’s in the transitional moments when error is most likely to occur. But there’s a balance to strike here because there are also...
There is no getting around chest pain when you work in the ED, so we might as well embrace it with zeal and gusto. Within this one symptom there are several potentially lethal diagnoses (MI, PE, dissection). So we must be very careful in our workups...
If you’ve listened to Stimulus, you may be acquainted with emergency department nurse Jose Pacheco. He was the first voice ever heard on the show in episode number one Verbal Judo and more recently Caring for the Unapologetically Unvaccinated. I’ve k...
It can be hard enough managing critical tasks in even the best of times but, when things start to go awry, you need to focus even more to keep moving in a positive direction. Back by popular demand, Dan Dworkis (our guest on episode 57) walks us thro...
A book I recommend to many coaching clients is “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. I’ve even had a client use a several month coaching engagement specifically to focus on the exercises in the book. What makes it such a potent tool?...
Our recent episode on navigating conversations with unvaccinated COVID patients is one of my recent favorites. One reason this really resonated is that it brings up several gravity problems1: COVID is here, it’s sticking around for a while, lots of p...
Case studies using Nonviolent Communication in real world situations including: how to give a proper compliment, perils of bringing up past issues, emergency empathy when speaking to a consultant, receiving gratitude, point of care compassion, and t...
Nonviolent Communication is one of the most powerful ways of speaking with people that I have ever come across. The post 69. A Primer on Nonviolent Communication appeared first on Orman Physician Coaching.
We cover two solutions to make medical documentation, charting, and the EMR less onerous: a very specific way to interact with scribes and using technology that’s already in your pocket to chart at the bedside. These might seem like ‘tech hacks’ but...
We share two conversations about navigating the waters of interacting with unvaccinated COVID patients. The post 67. Caring for the Unapologetically Unvaccinated appeared first on Orman Physician Coaching.