I help physicians and healthcare leaders build more sustainable clinic days by improving workflow, reducing hidden work, and operationalizing the Quadruple Aim through practical coaching and tools.As a life coach, I help physicians get work done at work so they can be more present for the things that matter most to them. Book a call at Mededwell.com/coaching
Your note probably has more than it needs to
Reader,
Here's something most physicians never question: what their note actually has to contain.
The template exists. The fields are there. So you fill them.
But some of those fields are real requirements — billing, compliance, clinical safety. And some of them are accumulated inertia. Someone built a template years ago. It got copied forward. Nobody removed anything. And now you're filling in sections that serve no downstream reader.
A note that says the right things in organized fragments is more useful — to you, to the next provider, to the patient — than a note that says everything in polished paragraphs.
Sentence fragments aren't lazy. They're efficient. They're clinical. They're what rounds were built on.
You're allowed to write a note that does its job without doing three extra jobs on top of it.
If this is giving you permission to rethink something, reply and tell me what.
–Ryan
MedEdWell | Sustainable Medicine for Physicians & Leaders
I help physicians and healthcare leaders build more sustainable clinic days by improving workflow, reducing hidden work, and operationalizing the Quadruple Aim through practical coaching and tools.As a life coach, I help physicians get work done at work so they can be more present for the things that matter most to them. Book a call at Mededwell.com/coaching
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