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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

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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

Hospitals, Patients

Refusing Telemedicine – Can Patients Opt-out of Remote Care?

July 13, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

With the sweeping rise of COVID19 telemedicine has taken healthcare by storm. During the local surges, this served as a mandated way of maintaining safe distancing. But as things come back to a new normal and as we decide where telemedicine fits in to a clinic structure it might be worth asking: should patients have the option for in-person care. Is refusing ... Continue Reading about Refusing Telemedicine – Can Patients Opt-out of Remote Care?

Tagged With: Telemedicine

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Stop Medical Distancing

July 7, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic hospitals are facing catastrophic financial challenges. The American Hospital Association estimates a four-month impact of $202.6 billion in losses for hospitals and health systems - That’s an average of $50.7 billion per month. With these mounting losses some systems ands organizations have jumped on board with a media ... Continue Reading about Stop Medical Distancing

Tagged With: COVID, Hospital marketing, Hospitals

Hospitals, Physicians

Measure What You Care About

July 13, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

“We don’t know how to measure what we care about so we care about what we measure.” This quote comes from Chris Dancy in his provocative book, Don’t Unplug. While it references technology, the quote captures the problem with modern medicine’s obsession with numbers. Measuring to manage is okay as long as we’re measuring the right stuff. Usually we’re not ... Continue Reading about Measure What You Care About

Hospitals, Physicians, Social/Public Media

How Not to Teach Social Media

July 2, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

The early days of Twitter and Facebook were all about early adopters giving ‘social media talks.’ For many of us these amounted to cheerleading over shiny new objects - fast moving talks that subtly oversold social media. Conversions from non-believers to believers were less frequent than we liked. We told ourselves folks 'just didn't get it.' Speaking for myself, I ... Continue Reading about How Not to Teach Social Media

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