Emily Silverman, MD
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Emily Silverman, MD
Healthcare workers are inherently altruistic and self-sacrificing, and business exploits these traits by pushing clinicians to the edge of exhaustion.
New York Times • Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
Telling 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
An essay in JAMA, arguing that doctors should each lunch. Ideally with other people.
Lunchroom Revolution
"I was placed for adoption by my teenage birth parents during a time when closed adoptions were still commonplace. Each year on my adoption day, my adoptive mother would tell me the story of how I came into their lives. The story grew in detail as I aged and was interrupted by more questions. I learned that I was briefly in foster care during a
... See moreJAMA • Baby Girl
COVID dreams from healthcare workers, which speak to the terror/uncertainty of 2020-2201.
Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) • COVID Dreams
These data are from 2011, but supports the economic argument for creating a humane work environment in healthcare.