On/Offcall: When Physicians Unite, We Gain Power
It’s been a huge week: I’m so grateful to all the new physicians who joined us in record numbers this week across all specialties — I see you, neurology, rheumatology, hospital medicine, gastroenterology, and emergency medicine (to name a few!). If you’re new, hi and welcome. We’re really excited you’re here.
One month ago, Offcall was just an idea. With a bold mission to combat burnout and improve the wealth and wellbeing of physicians, we set out to build a community and a set of job transparency tools to help physicians come together and access reliable data to know our worth. Seeing how quickly we’re growing gives me great faith that, despite these trying times, our best days of practicing medicine are still ahead of us.
How can you advocate for yourself if you don’t know what’s normal? That’s why salary transparency is so powerful: With each new physician who joins, we gain collective power. And as we continue to grow, we will be able to better advocate for ourselves and achieve fairer compensation across all specialities. Thank you for being part of this movement, and please keep spreading the word about Offcall in your networks. We’re just getting started.
Graham Walker, MD Emergency Physician, Co-founder, Offcall
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Dr. Hardeep Phull: Stop Saying “Burnout”
This week on How I Doctor, Graham spoke to Hardeep Phull, MD, MS , an oncologist who’s become a forceful advocate for physician burnout – except he believes “moral injury” is a better term for the widespread problem. Hardeep also reflects on finding purpose during COVID, his financial advice for younger doctors, and sheds light on the current landscape of oncology, including what’s exciting (targeted drugs) and what’s broken (note-taking).
The episode has sparked some powerful reactions:
Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MBA : “Keeping agency and using my voice in these difficult times is why I am still practicing medicine, even though it looks different than my early career days.”
Aditi U Joshi MD, MSc, FACEP : “A great reminder to stop and see what’s important in life.”
Eric Arzubi, MD : “Sticking to our values while our boundaries are being constantly tested and pierced is unbelievably hard.”
Thanks to everyone who listened and shared your reactions.
If there's someone you think Graham should interview for How I Doctor, drop us a line at [email protected].
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Dr. Phil DiGiacomo left emergency medicine three years ago. Here’s his practical advice on how to navigate the non-clinical job search.
3 Things to Read This Week
Mark Cuban: A Few Words on Healthcare (Blog Maverick)
Mark Cuban shares his “stream of consciousness thoughts” on fixing the economics of healthcare. Here’s a nice TL;DR summary from Graham.
A new study found women and non-white men are more likely to go into academic medicine but less likely to be promoted.
Late-stage cancer patients abstained from chemo and traveled to a small clinic in Antigua for blood-filtering treatment that cost $45,000.
Chime in — we’re physician-sourcing
We’re trying something new: Let’s crowd-source answers to a key question and publish the responses to help fellow physicians at work and in their lives. This week’s question:
What’s one tool (AI or otherwise), app, or work hack you’ve used to make your life or job easier? How did it help you?
Add a comment and we’ll publish the responses next week. Have a question you think we should ask next week? Also let us know!
Highlights From Our Community
Each week, we celebrate career milestones, launches, & other goings-on in the physician community. Have something to promote? Reply and we’ll feature you.
??? Congrats, Hardeep Phull, MD, MS
How I Doctor guest Dr. Phull also delivered the keynote lecture at the University of Arizona’s annual Undergraduate Biology Research Program conference.
???Go off, Danielle Ofri
Dr. Danielle Ofri is one of four doctor-slash-writers speaking at Literary Rx, an upcoming panel discussion. Drs. Perri Klass, Damon Tweedy and Esther Choo round out the group. Get tickets.
???? Congrats, Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD
Dr. Oshmyansky is the co-founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, which turned three years old this week.
??Congrats, Maxime Griot, MD
Nature Communications featured Dr. Griot’s recent article about research on the metacognitive capabilities of LLMs for handling medical questions. Read the paper.
???Congrats, Sudeep Bansal
Dr. Bansal will share insights about measuring quality in primary care at an upcoming virtual event hosted by Paulius Mui, MD . Sign up.?
???Awesome job, Graham and Jonathan H. Chen
ICYMI, Graham and data scientist Jonathan Chen shared practical tips for rolling out AI in healthcare at Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. (Recording link coming soon).
??Way to go, Basil Kahwash, MD, MMHC
Dr. Kahwash earned a new certification: FAAAAI (Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology).
??Thanks, Justin Woods, MD, FAWM
We love a shout out ??
??Career moves — cheers!
→ Minal Shah started a new role as Medical Director of Virtual Care at CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region .
→ Christian Pean M.D., M.S. is now the Executive Director for AI and Information Technology Innovation at Duke Orthopaedic Surgery .
Want to be featured next week or know about a colleague who should be? Email us directly, or let us know in the comments.
Oncologist | Scientist | Cleveland Clinic Alumnus | Pilot | Yachtsman | Educator | Keynote Speaker | Podcaster | Force Multiplier (Disclosure: All posts portray my personal opinion and are unrelated to employers)
1 个月Love reading this newsletter each week. It's such an honor to be a part of this pro-physician movement through Offcall, via my highlighted podcast/articles. This is about giving physicians a voice! ?? ??
Social Entrepreneur and Consultant for Medtech
1 个月That is a fantastic effort!
Advancing primary care through technology and education
1 个月Powerful Medical by Martin Herman holds promise to make EKG interpretation easier Dereck Paul, MD pushing the boundaries of clinical decision support with Glass Health -- I usually pair it with OpenEvidence led by Daniel Nadler and Pathway by Jon Hershon Awell seems pretty indispensable for building custom care flows if orgs want to move fast and may not have access to in house dev team Thomas Vande Casteele
Physician Executive | Catalyst | Inventor | Founder | Entrepreneur | Advisor
1 个月Gamma is PowerPoint on steroids! Just discovered this one for creating, drafting and modifying presentations. OpenEvidence is also a new bestie.
Director of AI and IT Innovation at Duke Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon | CEO and Co-Founder of RevelAi Health
1 个月So hard to pick just one! I think I have to highlight old fashioned GPT 4o with custom GPT functionality. I have my own prompt builder assistant, Letter writer draft maker, research brainstorm buddy and copywriting agent rolled up in one— and chatting with GPT realtime to quickly expand on ideas and clinical innovation while on walks has been incredible. But a close second is Claude! Claude has helped me create compelling visuals for scientific research and communicate my text ideas to diagrams through their integrated react artifact builder and Mermaid Chart tool. So good for creating flow diagrams where I map out a care team workflow, a first draft of a research diagram and more.