Burnout Isn’t Just About Hours — It’s About Broken Systems
burnt-out by the system For too long, we’ve looked at clinician burnout as an individual issue. Not sleeping enough. Not managing time well. Not doing yoga. Not being “Resilient”. But burnout isn’t about personal weakness. It’s the natural result of a broken system — one that pushes more and more work onto doctors while giving […]
How We’re Rebuilding Trust in Clinical Documentation (One Note at a Time)
Rebuild trust through notes Let’s face it — clinical notes haven’t always felt trustworthy. Somewhere along the way, documentation became bloated with fillers, riddled with copied templates, and stripped of the story. It became something we wrote to meet requirements, not to reflect reality. We documented for billing, for compliance, for the checkbox — and […]
Can AI Really Help Doctors — Without Feeling Like It’s Taking Over?
AI and Doctors When people hear “AI in healthcare,” their first reaction is often hesitation — and for good reason. Will it replace doctors? Will it reduce clinical care to a series of machine-generated decisions? Will it strip the human part out of medicine? It’s a fair concern. But here’s the truth: the goal of […]
Inbox Overload: When a 5-Minute Message Turns Into 45 Minutes of Work
Pajama time is for Family It starts innocently enough — a short message from a patient: “Can I get a refill on my blood pressure meds?” Quick task, right? Shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. But if you’re a clinician, you know how the rest of this story goes. You open the chart. […]
Pajama Time Is Stealing Our Evenings — How Can We Get It Back?
Pajama time is for Family Ask almost any clinician today about their workday, and you’ll hear a familiar phrase whispered with exhaustion: “Pajama time.” Pajama time is what we call the hours spent at home — long after clinic hours are done — finishing charts, answering portal messages, reviewing labs, and chasing loose ends that […]
What If Clinical Documentation Actually Made You Think Better?
Think while documenting For years, documentation has been seen as a chore. A burden. Something to finish after the real work is done. But what if that wasn’t true? What if your notes didn’t just record your thinking — but actually made you think better? Imagine if your documentation process helped you prioritize what mattered […]
Building Tools Doctors Actually Want to Use (Not Just What Admins Want)
The Tools We Really Want Let’s be honest for a second — a lot of the “technology” we use in medicine today wasn’t really built for us. It was built for someone else: billing teams, compliance officers, insurance companies. Most of us didn’t go into medicine dreaming of clicking 47 times just to order a […]