33c was lookin' a little 2008 so I thought it was time for a refresh. Same feel but with a little more breathing room for you, the reader. I'm planning to customize 33c further to make it easier on your eyes and minds. While I try to live by Seth Godin’s imperative that we must always finish and ship, I'm afraid that this is a space that will never be done. As a ... Continue Reading about 33 charts Refresh
Physician Salaries – Doximity’s Career Navigator
Yesterday Doximity announced the launch of Career Navigator - the first doctor-driven, grassroots look at physician compensation trends. Some 18,000 verified practicing physicians began sharing anonymous compensation data over the past four months. The resulting interactive map is available free to any US physician through Doximity and includes compensation trends for ... Continue Reading about Physician Salaries – Doximity’s Career Navigator
Social Media Has Been Introduced to Physicians
There’s a national organization that I’ve done some work with. And for the past few years I have run social media sessions at their annual meeting. Social Media 101 and other programs with non-threatening names intended to draw in frightened doctors. This year I suggested that the days of the new thing have passed. At some point we must go beyond the ... Continue Reading about Social Media Has Been Introduced to Physicians
Weekend Medicine
It’s remarkable that hospitals still keep weekend schedules. On Saturday and Sunday, things stop. They don’t stop, but they really do. ORs operate with emergency staffing. Routine diagnostic imaging is held until Monday morning. Saturday and Sunday schedules are a throwback to a time when the tempo of health care was set by the doctor’s rounds and the hands of a ... Continue Reading about Weekend Medicine
33 Shorts | January 16, 2014
A few interesting things from the stream this week: Ignorant teens Most of us were smug enough to believe that we understood teens and their social media after reading this Medium post-gone-viral. danah boyd’s brilliant take shows that teens know themselves no better than we do. As the father of a 16-year-old, I concur. Pharmacy medicine The short-term solution ... Continue Reading about 33 Shorts | January 16, 2014
33 Shorts | January 12, 2015
A few noteworthy things: Board stiff Doctors are sick and tired of jumping hoops. Organized medicine’s latest mandate is maintenance of certification, or MOC. Consisting of an assortment of oddly creative quality and patient-safety exercises, it seems MOC’s biggest win has been the initiation of a conversation about what makes a doctor qualified. In a bold move of ... Continue Reading about 33 Shorts | January 12, 2015