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TikTok Health Champions and Skeptics

February 5, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

TikTok health champions and skeptics are haggling on MedTwitter over its worthiness as a platform. It started with some bad physician actors posting stuff that was disrespectful to patients. The disagreement looks something like this: TikTok health skeptics say it’s a place where bad things happen. TikTok health champions argue that pinheads are not platform ... Continue Reading about TikTok Health Champions and Skeptics

Tagged With: public physician, Social media, tiktok

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Moral Distress and Pet Theories of Burnout

February 4, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This JAMA editorial, Clarifying the Language of Clinician Distress, offers a look at the complexity of physician burnout. The piece suggests that rather than talking about burnout we need to more precisely describe the problem for what it is: Moral distress. Moral distress, according to the authors, occurs when a doctor believes they know the right thing to do ... Continue Reading about Moral Distress and Pet Theories of Burnout

Tagged With: Burnout, Human

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Practice Fusion Kickback Scheme to Push Opioid Prescriptions

January 28, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

The Department of Justice’s criminal investigation of EHR vendor Practice Fusion showcases medical tech’s latest display of malfeasance. As part of a sweeping DOJ investigation Practice Fusion admits that it solicited and received kickbacks from a major opioid company in exchange for utilizing its EHR software to influence physician prescribing of opioid pain ... Continue Reading about Practice Fusion Kickback Scheme to Push Opioid Prescriptions

Tagged With: EHR, Surveillance capitalism

Physicians

Surgery Work-life Balance Reconsidered

January 27, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

"You can sleep when you’re dead,” the surgery attending said to me in 1989 when I showed up from the call room a minute late for rounds. As funny as it sounds, I believed him. Surgery work-life balance has never been a thing. In fact, this mindset has been part of surgery’s (and medicine’s) hustle culture for years. Broken personal lives were sadly worn as a badge of ... Continue Reading about Surgery Work-life Balance Reconsidered

Tagged With: Burnout, Surgeons, Work-life balance

Physicians, Social/Public Media

Anti-vaccine Attack on TikTok – Is Facebook Complicit?

January 20, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

Following a post last week about the benefits of immunization, Ohio pediatrician Nicole Baldwin became the target of a coordinated anti-vaccine attack on TikTok, Facebook and even her office. Her story then became the subject of mainstream media news. Of course, physicians as targets of the anti-vaccine mob is not new. Bloggers and early era social media ... Continue Reading about Anti-vaccine Attack on TikTok – Is Facebook Complicit?

Tagged With: Facebook, Social media, tiktok, Vaccines

Future Medicine, Physicians, Technology

Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

January 13, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In a field now awash with data and technologies, physicians are preparing for the transformation of patient care, according to the 2020 Health Trends Report, The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician, published by Stanford Medicine. The report documents key trends steering the healthcare's future, including an emerging digital health market, new laws opening patient ... Continue Reading about Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

Tagged With: Human, MD Future, Technology

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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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