There are many ways to Rome, but in my experience there are three major keys to a successful medical career. Here they are:
3 Major Keys To A Successful Medical Career
The importance of being honest – 4 ways to improve your patient’s satisfaction ratings
Whether our patients are content with our work greatly depends on their expectation prior to the treatment.
While we should always do our best to deliver high quality work, modulating -and many times lowering- their expectations can further maximize your patient’s satisfaction ratings. Here are 4 ways how you can do that.
Present your patients like this – and your attending will love you
Presenting cases is one of the most important skills in medicine. Mastering this skill will greatly improve your work as a doctor and enhance your career. When you give good presentations, your attending will
- know you understood the patient
- trust your judgement and
- give you more responsibilities.
Doctors, who know how to present a patient will be perceived as professional by their colleagues and bosses. Here are 7 key points.
Here Are 7 Steps To Telling Your Colleague About His Error – Without Becoming His Enemy
“Hey Daniel, greetings from Jack [our attending, name changed]: Don’t ever put in a pneumocath in a patient’s chest again, your patient suffered a pneumothorax”.
That’s how I was greeted to my late shift after I had put a chest tube in a patient the day before, which obviously hadn’t work out as we had hoped.
As it turned out, the patient had a pneumothorax before I even saw him. But either way, I wasn’t all that happy about this kind of feedback in front of all my colleagues. Obviously someone was happy I had caused a complication.
Three Reasons Why You Should Tell Your Colleagues About Their Mistakes. Sooner Than Later.
During a recent night shift I was called to a patient who obviously was acutely ill. She had been transferred from the ICU to the ward today. Further workup showed she didn’t have urinary tract infection (UTI) as suspected, but: necrotizing fasciitis.
THE Key Skill For Every Doctor: Deciding What Is Most Important Right Now.
The most important skill for doctors regardless of your specialty is this one: Decide which crisis you deal with first. Many tasks will appear very urgent, and some actually are. However, you can only effectively focus on one thing at a time. Multitasking is a myth. So here is an example:
10 Reasons Why Now Is the Best Time to Be a Doctor. Ever.
I’m convinced that there has never been a better time in history to be a doctor. However, many doctors use a great part of their time to complain how hard life is as a doctor. They talk about the good old days, when everything was better and easier.
So I put together my top ten of reasons, why this is the best time to be a doctor. Ever. Consider this post an antidepressant for doctors and feel free to share it.
How to Get Through a Night Shift: My Six-Step-Formula.
Getting through a night without a minute of sleep is what I find the hardest about being a doctor. Lack of sleep will make me unconcentrated, irritable, and more error-prone. And during a night shift, it’s not your only task to stay awake: you are supposed to work, make good decisions, and save lives.
During my first years of my residency I tested several strategies not only to stay awake, but also alert and concentrated during a night shift.
Here I share what worked, and what didn’t .
Four steps to dealing with criticism so YOU profit from it
Every time you end your shift, you’ll be criticised. Your colleagues and bosses try to understand why you did what you did.
That’s why they will question why you
- initiated this diagnostic procedure
- started that therapeutic regimen
- established this diagnosis
- or didn’t do all of the above.
That’s OK: Three doctors, four opinions. However, many doctors take that form of criticism personal and react defensive. Here are my four steps to handling criticism, so you profit from it:
Six apps every doctor should use – five of them are FREE!
It’s no secret that doctors are busy people. Having an organized workflow is key to be productive and keep a reasonable amount of free time.
To manage my time and tasks I use these apps that
- save time
- keep everything in place.
- make my life easier.
In order to keep my workflow clutterfree I only use six apps, five of them are FREE!