Patient and Physician Engagement are impossible when you miss this important first step - Podcast

Enrollment Precedes Engagement

 

Your patients and physicians will remain unengaged until you enroll them in the benefits of working with you. When physicians and patients understand What's In It For Me (WIIFM) and are clear that they want what you are proposing - when they are enrolled - only then will they engage and participate in their treatment plan or your practice improvement initiative. 

Here are the conversation tools you  need to enroll both patients and physicians effectively.

In this podcast interview I give you both a patient and physician enrollment scenario and the specific questions you ask to complete the enrollment process.

Multitasking makes you stoopid 

The neuroscience is clear, multitasking does not work. It is not a "skill" you can develop. It is not something you can possibly get good at. Multitasking is an urban myth in my opinion. In a healthcare setting, it can actually threaten patients' lives.

Physician Burnout - Why working harder never works

In my coaching practice, working with hundreds of over stressed physicians, every single one is a supremely hard worker.

Our residency training values hard work above all else ... to the point of nearly working each of us to death at some point. If there is anything a physician knows how to do ... it is work hard.

It is our default reaction to any challenge. We put our nose to the grindstone and try to overwhelm it by the sheer volume of our effort.

Unfortunately when you come to the dead end of burnout, working harder never works.

Here is why ...

If you work harder doing more of what you are already doing - you will just get more of what you've already got

Patient and Physician Engagement - the Missing Step

We are entering healthcare’s Age of Engagement- and something is missing.

In this article let me show you the missing link to patient and physician engagement. Understand this engagement blind spot, and you will immediately upgrade your effectiveness as a clinician and physician leader

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Engagement definition:
The full and enthusiastic participation in a course of action.

Physician Burnout Vs. The Bottom Line: The Epic Battle

The wave of consolidation sweeping healthcare in the US is causing wholesale collapse of private practice in many markets. Physicians are trading in their practices for employee status in rapidly growing provider networks usually based on a local hospital system.

Let me show you how this move sets up an invisible Battle that will determine your quality of life … and how to restore Balance as an employee physician.

Physician Job Search and the Interview Questions Doctors Forget to Ask

You MUST ask these if you are going to avoid the top three reasons employed physicians quit down the road. Let me give you the BIG LIST and a method you can use in your interview to make a quality decision about your contract.

NOTE: If you are not searching for a job at the moment ...
This is a Very Interesting set of questions to ask about your Current Job. The answers may surprise you and give you some ideas on how to improve the quality of your work day.

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Physician Leadership: The Lone Ranger vs. the Team Captain

Your leadership style goes a long way towards determining your team’s results. As a physician leader, your style organizes the way your team functions and creates your team member’s experience of  “playing” on your team.

Batch Processing, Patient Flow and the science of how to Get Home On Time

Do you find yourself spending too much time on things that have nothing to do with seeing patients – and then getting home later than you would like?

Do you notice that for every 15 minutes you spend with a patient you spend WAY more than that messing around in the EMR and being distracted by things like prescription refills, test results and a hundred other forms of two bit clerical work in your day?

Does your organization expect you to access your EMR from home to complete chart notes in the evenings after you have tucked your kids into bed? ARRRGGGGHHH !   :-(

I wish I had a chance to shadow you in your office, because there are a number small changes you can make right now that will shave hours off of your “non-clinical activities”.

They don’t teach these things in residency … so let me share the top two tools I have found to get you home on time – with your charts done – more often. If you are not doing these two simple tasks every day in the office you are working WAY too hard and getting home at least an hour later than you have to.

Physician Leadership POWER UP for your BID Team Huddle

- De-stress your day
- Get your work done more easily
… and get your Team to take on more of the work load happily …
with this POWER TRAINING for your BID Team Huddle

Work Life Balance for Doctors – day hike to Hidden Lake Lookout