Emily Silverman, MD
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Emily Silverman, MD
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
Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
New York Timesnytimes.com
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)
Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care - Journal of General Internal Medicine
link.springer.com
Primary Care and
The "Uncanny Valley" of healthcare. When doctors ALMOST seem to care...
Joshua Briscoe • Remaining Human: Avoiding the Uncanny Valley
An essay in JAMA, arguing that doctors should each lunch. Ideally with other people.
Lunchroom Revolution
This amazing paper, about the history of time organization for doctors, reminds me of the scene in Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep explains to Anne Hathaway where her ugly blue sweater came from. "This way of practicing medicine was selected FOR you..." 🤯🤯🤯