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Oh, I realized suddenly.
It’s not that I’m not smart enough or don’t know enough.
It’s burnout.
I took my own advice.
I cut back.
I put exercise on my calendar.
I learned to meditate.
I started writing.
I feel better.
I still see patients.
#ShareAStoryInOneTweet
For folks out there feeling balanced between their professional and personal lives (whatever that looks like for you), how do you do it? Full time (FT) with strong boundaries? Part time? Other?
Please share your struggles and pearls!
50%Stay FT w/ boundaries
38%Decrease to Part Time
12%Other
8 votes • Final results Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM retweeted
Doctors are in a very difficult position.
We have absolute accountability, combined with minimal authority.
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I wrote a brief summary of the new RSV vaccines (for those >60 and pregnant people) and monoclonal antibody (for infants). I’d love it if you’d read and share with anyone that might benefit! managinghealthexpectations.c…
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I woke up this morning and saw this on the front of @TheLancet. A quote from my manuscript. As the feature article. A narrative.
Whew.
Along with redefining what a professor looks like, it makes me happy to help expand what scholarship looks like, too.
Yeah.
#storiescount 💛
Twitter is a mixed bag, but it did bring me a great friend in @DrZedZha! Turns out you can have role models that are younger than you 😍
Twitter friends who later became writing group friends and now real world friends!! 🫶🫶 @SarahMatMDMPH
maybe all of our ruined summer vacation plans will motivate us to mobilize for #ClimateAction.
The primary care Catch22. If you don’t click away, you will burn out from admin overload after hours. But if you do click away, you will burn out from lack of presence and connection.
In clinic, I’m constantly pulled between wanting to do work on the computer & wanting to listen to the patient. I hope my divided attention isn’t obvious. But I want to #AskThePatient .
Is it obvious when your doctor is distracted? If so, please comment how it makes you feel. 🫶
94%Yes
6%No
335 votes • Final resultsthe best thing the health system could do for patients is to protect each clinician’s ability to be human.
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ACLM applauds @NYCMayor's plant-based resolution, subsequently ratified by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to fight disease, climate crisis, and ensure fiscal sustainability.
Read the full release: prn.to/3K3EXJI
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🚨New in @JAMIA_Journal with @AJHolmgren 🚨we find that the gender disparity in electronic inbox burden increased post-pandemic
Our data underscores a need to consider & compensate for the work associated with the EHR inbox, esp given disproportionate impact on women docs
New paper in @JAMIA_Journal with @LisaRotenstein: pre-pandemic, women docs received more patient messages and had a higher inbox burden. What happened post-COVID, when messaging rates skyrocketed?
The disparity in messages increased!
academic.oup.com/jamia/advan…
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"The trouble of greed is so big I have trouble finding purchase.
Financial greed is eroding the foundation of success of medicine - which is the shared pursuit of the mission of healing.
We must dissent."
@donberwick @TheIHI #IHI2022
i’d like us all to try hard when we discuss public health crises to, in the same breath, speak to policy solutions.
health is policy
policy is politics
politics is local
we can do this.
Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM retweeted
Curious about what *really* happens in therapy?
So many people wonder what actually happens in therapy. Many people don’t go when they might benefit because of stigma, gross misconceptions about what therapy actually looks like (hello, TV and movies!), and access.
#thread 🧵
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Her: "Why haven't you left for L.A. yet?"
Me: "Huh? Oh. Yeah. I'm pretty much almost done. It's okay."
*silence*
Her: "But, like is it?"
Me: *sighs* "Me rushing there won't change anything."
Her: "Depends on who you ask."
And after that, we both went back to charting.
Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM retweeted
Hey #MedTwitter! Look at this amazing piece written by my audacious friend @JenPlotkinMD. Such an outstanding lesson
@whole_patients @MLRobertsonMD @jesscolburn @InduPartha @meggerber @dhpomerantz @DrDSThomas @GIMaPreceptor @EricLast3 @ShreyaTrivediMD
link.springer.com/epdf/10.10…
there’s an abundance of time/$$/energy that goes into assessing which medications are the most effective -
but the data set most of us on the ground use is which ones are affordable / covered.
let’s make community medicine the next revolution in health care.
Fabulous read (love the title)!
Hypertension—A Social Disease in Need of Social Solutions | Hypertension ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.…
