"Religion for the nonreligious" https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html Okay, don't get put off! I love this kind of writing. WARNING: navel gazing ahead. The idea that we are on a stepladder of consciousness, beginning on the one end, from one-celled, barely alive organisms, rising up through insects and up to chimpanzees and then Einstein-level humans, is interesting. And … Continue reading Wait But Why: the wisdom ladder by Tim Urban
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Interview with Becker’s Hospital Review (CT Lin on the CMIO role)
Thanks to Becker's for interviewing me and posting our conversation: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/crucial-skills-for-aspiring-cmios-q-a-with-uchealth-s-cmio-dr-c-t-lin.html Some back story for my role as CMIO: I began as the "chief complainer" back in 1998 or so... It has been a long journey over the past 20 years. I used to think "informatics" was about designing computer screens and the colors and … Continue reading Interview with Becker’s Hospital Review (CT Lin on the CMIO role)
White paper: the Future of EHRs (National Symposium at Stanford)
I had the privilege recently of being invited to a national symposium hosted by Stanford Medicine and Dean Lloyd Minor, sporting numerous EHR clinical experts, informaticists, vendors and other thought leaders. See the resulting white paper (caution, in addition to expert opinions, there are quotes from me): http://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/ehr/documents/SM-EHR-White-Papers_v12.pdf CMIO's take? I found it an invigorating, … Continue reading White paper: the Future of EHRs (National Symposium at Stanford)
More craziness about food and health (Eating in a 6 hour window?!) NYTimes
I've been fascinated recently (as you may know, reader) with meals, modified fasting, weight management, meditation. I guess I'm turning into one of those hippie, birkenstock-wearing, health-food-pushing, "hey, just use lemon juice for that" doctors from from a too-cool-for-school non-metropolitan back-to-earth backwaters. Not really. I'm always interested in non-traditional ideas that maybe mainstream medicine has … Continue reading More craziness about food and health (Eating in a 6 hour window?!) NYTimes
NYTimes: Talking about Failure is Crucial for Growth
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/smarter-living/talking-about-failure-is-crucial-for-growth-heres-how-to-do-it-right.html This is great, and timely, and something I want all my readers, my colleagues, my family to read. I need to read this again, too. This NYTimes article is about vulnerability, and the human condition, and ME not being embarrassed when (yet another) presentation or project, or idea that I have goes down the … Continue reading NYTimes: Talking about Failure is Crucial for Growth
Complex Adaptive Coalitions (NYTimes), and personal sanity
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/opinion/political-parties-climate.html I just spent some time on the phone with an informatics colleague going through a particularly tough time with an EHR replacement and upgrade. Some bad things had happened at the organization: a major visionary physician leader had quit, a department chair had assumed control and was tightening the control on "physician productivity". Furthermore, … Continue reading Complex Adaptive Coalitions (NYTimes), and personal sanity
Hey, time for JOMO! (NYTimes)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/style/joy-of-missing-out-summer.html Tough thing, about being in on fads. Hate and love it at the same time. Our latest fad, is the idea of Physician, or Clinician, or Professional Burnout, and that maybe 60% of all US physicians are burned out. Terrible, right? Yes. The great thing, though, is the global mental effort dedicated to thinking … Continue reading Hey, time for JOMO! (NYTimes)
Talk to the Hand (11 seconds, seriously?) and 3 tools to FIX THIS PROBLEM.
Our smart colleagues have published in JGIM (Journal of General Internal Medicine) and have updated the classic study: how long does it take for a doctor to interrupt the patient at the beginning of the interview, when patients begin their opening statement about "why I am here today." https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/wait--just-a-second--is-your-doctor-listening-/15963052 In years past, we found that … Continue reading Talk to the Hand (11 seconds, seriously?) and 3 tools to FIX THIS PROBLEM.
NYTimes: Power of Positive People
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/well/the-power-of-positive-people.html This is perfectly aligned with what I've been thinking recently. This combines ideas from a couple of books we've been reading: Nudge by Richard Thaler (a future book review), and another book on my to-read shelf: Connected, by Nicholas Christakis. Nudge talks about how small changes in our environment, often something we can design … Continue reading NYTimes: Power of Positive People
Gladwell writes about autonomous cars and digital music (must read!)
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/when-autonomous-cars-rule-what-will-happen-to-car-culture-feature Malcolm Gladwell does it again. I picked up last year's Car and Driver when at the barber this weekend. C/D created a 31 page spread on Autonomous vehicles, or as they cleverly put it "Auto: No 'Mo Us." Gladwell edited the contributions of about a dozen authors, but his final essay was a stunner: … Continue reading Gladwell writes about autonomous cars and digital music (must read!)