Emily Silverman, MD
@emilysilverman
creator and host @thenocturnists | internal medicine doctor | vol assistant professor of medicine @ucsf | writer | seeker | 3w4 | INFJ | tweeting @ESilvermanMD
Emily Silverman, MD
Primary Care and
Mental Health and
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
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.