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How AI Can Screw You: OpenEvidence, AI Scribes, and the HIPAA Checkbox

AI has moved into medical practice faster than almost anything in modern medicine. As clinicians lean on it more for documentation and clinical decisions, the pitfalls ar

The Golden 5 Minutes | What to Do Before You Get Out of Bed

What do you do before your feet hit the floor? I don't mean coffee or exercise. I mean the minutes before you get out of bed. My guest, Tim Thomas, calls the first five m

He Made an (Almost) Interruption-Free ED

Interruptions are, in a way, the currency of emergency medicine. But many of them may be making patient care worse rather than safer. EKGs are a perfect example: physicia

How to Not Lose Your Soul When You Get Sued | Gita Pensa, MD

Getting sued, or even just the fear of it, is one of the greatest hidden drivers of physician stress, burnout, and career dissatisfaction, yet almost no one teaches docto

Why Saying "Calm Down" Never Works (and what does)

When another person is upset or angry, our instinct can be to help them lower their emotional temperature by saying something like, "Just calm down," or, "Relax," or, "Ta

The Most Underrated Clinical Skill with Ron Epstein, MD

The quality of our attention shapes every interaction we have, yet listening is often the first skill sacrificed when pressure, technology, and time constraints take over

Avoiding Disability Insurance Disasters

Your ability to earn income is your most valuable financial asset. Physicians spend years protecting patients, building careers, and accumulating assets, yet many discove

Congratulations, You’re a Cog | Reclaiming agency inside a hungry system

Medicine gives you a map. Pre-med, med school, residency, attending. Step by step, no shortcuts. Then one day, the map disappears and you’re there asking, “Now what?” In

Why Your Job Needs a Better Scorecard

It’s not uncommon for hospitals to provide clinicians with scorecards. While they may seem like a judgment of your quality of work, scorecards rarely provide data that wi

How to Switch From Self Flagellation to Context Assessment

If you have ever lost it mid-shift, frozen when you should have acted, or spent the next two weeks asking yourself what's wrong with me, you already know what character a

How to Handle Interruptions Without Alienating Your Team

Emergency medicine has an interruption-based workflow. There's no getting around some of that, but recurrent interruptions erode quality of care, accuracy of documentatio

Why You Might Be Chasing the Wrong Dream

So many of our choices are shaped less by desire and more by expectation. We chase prestige, status, or recognition, only to arrive and realize we were climbing the wrong

Dan Millman on How to Practice Life

What if the true test of strength is focusing less on what we feel and more on what we do? In this episode, we explore a practical philosophy of action, presence, and per

Supranormal

Your work world is built on endurance, intensity, and mastery. The culture is 'always on,' and you were trained to perform in conditions no one would call normal. The wor

How To Not Overthink Simple Decisions

What if the best decision is to not decide at all? We waste valuable mental energy overthinking simple choices, especially when the outcomes are nearly identical. That ki

What Every Premed Parent Needs to Know

As students navigate an increasingly complex, competitive, and costly path to medical school, parents often find themselves uncertain about how to help without hindering

Why You Have More Power Than You Think to Change Healthcare

A broken system won’t fix itself, and no one is coming to the rescue. Medicine is fraying under the weight of burnout, misaligned incentives, and systemic inertia. Yet, h

Do You Know the Difference Between Competence and Capacity?

How can a person who’s clearly lucid still be deemed incapable of making their own medical decisions? The answer lies in the misunderstood yet critical distinction betwee

Boundary Rituals: How to Keep Work from Following You Home

Ever walk out of a shift and feel like the hospital came home with you? In medicine, the mental residue can cling long after the work day is done. One way to address this

Crystal-Clear and Error-Free | Three Essential Tools for High-Stakes Communication

The best communication in high-stakes environments isn’t complicated. Quite the opposite - it’s structured, clear, and consistent. Small, deliberate shifts in how we tran