How can this be an ideal model for healthcare?
Doctors and nurses need time with patients. We need time to be present. To provide thorough care. To check in with our staff.
If you’re being told you’re inefficient, I see you. Thanks for all you do.
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Tweet: Dr. Hayley Sharma @multilingualmd
2 years agoariel.miller91
As a med student, thank you to all of the physicians who take that time to educate us during a shift - I see how busy you are and extra appreciate the ones who take a second to (try to) teach me something while we see patients or let me try something on my own, even though it can slow you down 🫶
2 years agodoctor.gaby
Literally me spending 30 minutes with parents in the nursery and people think I’m too slow. That is the minimum to discuss everything necessary and examine a baby! Unreal.
2 years agoorbdoc_ai
No one gives their all for 80+ hours a week and comes up short. The real inefficiency isn’t the doctors—it’s the systems that demand impossible workloads. Patients deserve thorough care, and doctors deserve the time to give it. Appreciate you for speaking up.
2 years agopsychnursekait
Efficiency was never the goal for those of us at the bedside. Safe, compassionate care is
2 years agojennbraverman
Hi it’s me! My feedback has always been “inefficient,” and I have improved at this a lot but I just want to be thoughtful and thorough and caring and so that is tricky sometimes 🤷🏻♀️
2 years agoashleyrossdpt
My first appointment with my OB after I got pregnant, she was nearly an hour late. She apologized profusely and looked very flustered. I stopped her and said “please don’t apologize. I know you are let because you make sure to spend the time with each patient that they actually need. Not the 10-12 minutes the insurance arbitrarily allows you. Don’t ever apologize for being a great doctor.” A couple of weeks later, I miscarried. My phenomenal OB spent 30 minutes with me going over everything, offering resources, answering questions. She instructed me to take all the time I needed before I felt ready to leave the room. She even had her staff escort me out a side entrance so I didn’t have to walk through a waiting room full of expectant Mamas. She helped me through a subsequent successful pregnancy and birth and never apologized to me again if she was running a bit late.
2 years agodkchappell1
I’ve been a rural family physician for 30 years. My clinic recently got me an AI program that writes my notes. So now I can actually sit and listen to the patients, face to face, instead of trying to scribble notes to myself or type in Epic. Plus I go home TWO HOURS earlier since I’m not sitting there charting all evening. I have time during lunch to answer all my morning messages and even eat! It has been a real game-changer. I feel so much less burned-out every evening and actually get to enjoy my time with patients, not dreading all the charting and trying to rush. Highly recommend!
2 years agojustcallm3soni
When I broke duty hours to provide good care, I was told I was inefficient 👍
2 years agolava_lavalamp
And pump every 3 hours at work to make milk for my baby, answer curbside questions from other docs, plan staff education, keep my phone on me high alert for any issues from my kids at home
2 years agorntomdcoach
Relatable. I was usually the last resident left at clinic for much of training.. and I would feel embarrassed about it because I feared judgment of not being “efficient enough”. The strength of the relationships I built with patients, families was worth it. Slowing down is so so important, people deserve us to explain what’s happening in their languages, to listen to their stories and it takes time to advocate! Some of them started refusing to see others even if meant waiting longer for an appointment with me. It was with the discomfort of embarrassment or judgment.
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