How to fix bullying in health care

--------------------------------------------------------------- Here are classic practice management stories you missed on KevinMD. Thank you for your continuing readership. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored job listing from Careers by KevinMD.com [Exceptional hospitalist position in Missouri](. Sign on bonus. Loan assistance. 99th percentile for physician satisfaction! [Learn more](. --------------------------------------------------------------- KevinMD Plus: Oct 13, 2018 [How t]( fix bullying in health care]( When we think of bullying, we’re usually worrying about our school-age kids or remembering bad experiences from high school. We learn quickly in the health care field that bullies don’t change once they enter the clinical world. Health care, with its incredible differential in knowledge, authority and pay creates large power differentials and easily generates […] [The choice between medicine and nursing]( An excerpt from The Choice: Medicine vs. Nursing. An extensive amount of data now exists in the science of choice. Social researchers such as David Kahneman and Dan Ariely have conducted numerous experiments which suggest a number of ways in which humans are led ...Read more...Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your […] [A physician on timeshares: Who are they right for?]( Timeshares, for those who might not know, are a way to own the right to use a vacation resort. It comes in two forms, owning points or owning a specific room in a complex for a specific week. It’s like a partial ownership of a condo at a resort. These units can be traded for […] [How medical training can affect the physician psyche]( Since the two very sudden public suicide deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, society has again recognized that we never know what is under the surface of another’s façade. As physicians, these tragic occurrences emphasize that our caregiving requires seeing the entirety of an individual’s many parts. While we acknowledge that the façade is […] [Health care is making the classic mistake that many startups make]( Before managed care became the dominant force that it is, patients and doctors had the opportunity to get to know each other well. Doctors treated multiple generations within families. This helped establish a strong bond among patients and their doctors. While it might have intended to mean preventing expensive care, managed care began to mean […] [How to create an app as a physician]( “There’s an app for that.” The phrase became so popular with the advent of smartphones that Apple even trademarked it. There are currently 3.8 million apps available on Android devices and over 2 million available to Apple iPhone users. Does that mean that we’ve reached a limit on new and useful apps that can be […] [Bilateral empathy lowers patient expectations]( Generally speaking, patients and physicians are working towards good health. While many patient expectations can be unreasonable, others are practical; this article amalgamates them. Can you identify the absurd demands? But multiply half of the listed expectations by hundreds or thousands of patients, and we begin to understand why there is such a high rate […] [Confronting sexism in medicine]( The recent prominence of the #MeToo movement has shined a light at many places in our society where insidious or even obvious sexism against women has long gone unremarked. Even when noticed it’s just shrugged off as the way things are. In honor of this, #MeToo was named Person of the Year for 2017 by Time Magazine. Medicine […] [Financial independence requires sacrifice]( It is easy to look at someone’s net worth and ooh and ahh. The response from my monthly income reports is fairly telling. People see the numbers and wonder how I accumulated so much. They peruse the Rockstar Finance's Net Worth Tracker and daydream. To capture these dreams, there are countless blog posts about how to become a millionaire. […] [10 tips every young physician should read]( How do I balance my home life with physician life? I really want to do a research study. How do I start? How do I get involved in my specialties society? I am overwhelmed with clinical duties. How do I negotiate for nonclinical time? My manuscript was rejected. What should I do next? I had […] --------------------------------------------------------------- If a friend sent you this email and you want to subscribe, go to [KevinMD](. --------------------------------------------------------------- 345 Hudson Street New York NY 10014 USA [Unsubscribe]( | [Change Subscriber Options](