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Over the past several years, in an attempt to make healthcare more efficient, various “process improvements” (excessive documentation, regulations, and a variety of other hoops and ladders) have replaced time spent with patients.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Storoni, a Cambridge-trained eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, reminds readers that humans are not machines. In fact, she argues against the “linear, continuous, assembly line configuration of work” that the industrial revolution ushered in. In this digital age, she says, human efficiency should “no longer be defined by the quantity of outpu... See more
Madeleine Aggeler • Help! It Turns Out Breaks Make You More Productive
Fighting a rising tide of paperwork and bureaucracy, providers of health care, whether physicians, nurses, or administrators, say that time has become a scarce resource of which they have far too little.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Looking for the Anti-Mimetic Doctors (Part I)
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As doctors, we know full well that tracking the baby’s heart rate during labor has increased interventions but has not improved outcomes. In simpler terms, tracking the baby’s heart rate during labor has gotten more women induced or sliced open, but has not decreased stillbirths or postpartum deaths. Then why do we do it? Because it’s scary not to, that’s why. And I speak from experience.
The tyranny of the task is no different than the tyranny of the clock.
Josh Gabert-Doyon • The Tyranny of the Task | Josh Gabert-Doyon
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journals.sagepub.comTelling piece of research, which shows that primary care doctors are expected to do 27 hours of work in 8 hours.
Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care - Journal of General Internal Medicine
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