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The Circle of Safety and Physician Burnout

February 7, 2022 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In his book, Leaders Eat Last — Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, Simon Sinek discusses the importance of a safe work environment for innovation, productivity and survival. He calls this leader-driven space the Circle of Safety. It is easy to know when we are in the Circle of Safety because we can feel it. We feel valued by our colleagues and we feel ... Continue Reading about The Circle of Safety and Physician Burnout

Tagged With: Burnout, Leadership

Patient experience, Physicians

Goodhart’s law and patient satisfaction

November 22, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Goodhart’s law suggests that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. When I first read this I couldn’t help but think of healthcare and the quest for the perfect patient satisfaction score. The problem is that as soon as we steer physician behavior and teach to the test, patient satisfaction scores stop being a valid measure. Essentially, ... Continue Reading about Goodhart’s law and patient satisfaction

Tagged With: Patient experience

Physicians

Why DotMD Sold Out in Two Days

November 5, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

This past weekend the storied medical meeting DotMD sold out in two days. How did this happen and what does DotMD deliver that no other meeting does? Experiences. People are desperate for experiences. And the future of meetings is about the creation of human experiences. Sound, sensory, and emotion. These define DotMD.Like minds. Beyond the power of the ... Continue Reading about Why DotMD Sold Out in Two Days

Tagged With: DotMD, Medical meetings

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What is a Doctor’s Role?

October 19, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 4 minutes

This sounds like a crazy question. But it really isn’t. What does a doctor do? What's my job with my patients. What is a doctor's role? Some of what I do is transactional. Simple stuff with clear end-points. Some of it involves critical conversations and deeper kinds of thinking, planning, and translating. Breaking my job down into different roles I got to ... Continue Reading about What is a Doctor’s Role?

Tagged With: Doctoring 101, MD Future, Medical education, Physicians

EHR/Health IT, Information, Physicians

MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

October 2, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 6 minutes

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data.  More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of ... Continue Reading about MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

Tagged With: Burnout, EHR, Epic

Hospitals

Three Conditions That Define Healthcare

September 21, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

Since the pandemic healthcare has undergone a remarkable transformation. Before COVID dropped in as our latest wicked problem, technology was upending everything we do. I’ve been thinking a lot about the burnout, confusion, uncertainty, and exhaustion that we’re facing. I've been thinking about the conditions that define healthcare. When we talk about these ... Continue Reading about Three Conditions That Define Healthcare

Tagged With: Hospitals, Leadership, Uncertainty

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Bryan Vartabedian is the Chief Pediatrics Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin and one of health care’s influential
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