Emily Silverman, MD
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creator and host @thenocturnists | internal medicine doctor | vol assistant professor of medicine @ucsf | writer | seeker | 3w4 | INFJ | tweeting @ESilvermanMD
Emily Silverman, MD
The "Uncanny Valley" of healthcare. When doctors ALMOST seem to care...
Joshua Briscoe • Remaining Human: Avoiding the Uncanny Valley
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)
Lunchroom Revolution
jamanetwork.comCOVID dreams from healthcare workers, which speak to the terror/uncertainty of 2020-2201.
Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) • COVID Dreams
The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions
jamanetwork.comHealthcare and
Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care - Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Primary Care and
"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
Telling piece of research, which shows that primary care doctors are expected to do 27 hours of work in 8 hours.