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Jan 30
15 min

How to Make Better Clinical Decisions

We believe we make rational clinical decisions, but research is clear, rationality often falls short.

Jan 11
2 min

Why Do Healthcare Providers Use Ineffective Treatments?

3 common components causing ineffective treatments and a solution

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Reflecting on 2020 and Looking Forward to 2021

How Aurelius, Frankl, Epictetus, Kahneman, Munger, and Keynes shaped my mindset and taught me valuable lessons

Dec 16, 2020
7 min

Restoring the Lost Art of the Clinical Examination

We need to eliminate wasteful examinations and focus on the patient’s needs.

Dec 9, 2020
7 min

“Be More Resilient” Is Not Enough:

Our mental complexity influences our susceptibility to burnou

Dec 3, 2020
7 min

To Combat Burnout, You Need to Consider More Than Workload

Simply telling someone to build resilience is a cop-out. Understanding perception and cognitive fallacies point to better solutions.

Nov 24, 2020
5 min

What Is Missing From Schooling?

Mental models, reflective practice, curiosity, and uncertainty are necessary to succeed in our careers and life.

Nov 10, 2020
14 min

How Do We Prevent Injuries?

Assessing return to sport and injury prevention models

Nov 4, 2020
17 min

How Do You Decide If a Diet Is Healthy?

There is no such thing as a “best” diet.

Oct 30, 2020
13 min

Can We Prevent Injuries?

Injury prevention is more complicated than we are commonly made to believe.

Oct 18, 2020
10 min

Sleep While You Are Alive

Sleep deprivation influences nearly all measures of performance

Oct 6, 2020
9 min

Using Professional Baseball to Explain Cognitive Bias.

Using professional baseball to explain the influence of cognitive bias.

Sep 27, 2020
4 min

Crucial Conversations Are Non-Optional

Crucial conversations are the foundation for addressing the issues. We must all be willing to challenge current beliefs.

Sep 23, 2020
10 min

The Art of the Clinical Debate

Punching people in the face with facts doesn’t work, yet this is the common approach taken during clinical "debates."

Sep 16, 2020
8 min

How Do We Handle Failure in Healthcare?

“Fail fast, fail often” doesn’t apply to healthcare, but there are strategies clinicians can use to benefit from failure.

Sep 3, 2020
6 min

Going Beyond the Physical Benefits of Physical Therapy

PTs have been identified as professionals who can effectively deliver exercise to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Sep 1, 2020
12 min

Why You Should Stop Trying To Specialize

“If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.” —C. Munger

Aug 26, 2020
5 min

Do Patients Have a Type?

Patient personality and values impact the type of healthcare they request and receive.

Aug 20, 2020
6 min

Why Books are the Greatest Mentors

Our perspectives and learning are limited by the amount we read “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that y...

Aug 17, 2020
13 min

Is a placebo effect good or bad?

Understanding the influence of placebo and nocebo in clinical practice Ok, so this one is a little longer than previous posts. If you nee...

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