The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com For years, my Sunday evenings weren’t mine. After dinner I’d sit down to catch up on charting. Then, because I was also running a residency program, I’d plan the week’s didactics and prep for the meetings waiting on Monday. By the time I closed the laptop, the evening was gone. It wasn’t a night off. It was a light shift. I look back on those nights now and wish I’d spent them with my family. The...
10 days ago • 3 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com It’s in your inbox right now. Someone asked for something. You know your answer. You’ve known it since Thursday. But every time you open the reply window, you close it and go do three easier things. The Challenge: the answer isn’t hard. The writing is. All month we’ve worked on what to say. The holding line buys you a day. The counteroffer gives them part of the problem. The exit gets you out of a yes you...
16 days ago • 3 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com Last April someone stopped you in the hallway. “Can you sit on the residency selection committee this year?” April you looked at October and saw open space. So you said yes. Now it’s October. Interview season starts in three weeks. And there is no open space. There never was. The Challenge: you made a promise for someone who doesn’t exist There’s a name for this. Researchers Gal Zauberman and John Lynch...
24 days ago • 2 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com The ask comes from someone you like. Your chair. The partner who covered your shifts when your dad was in the hospital. “Can you take over resident journal club through June?” You used last week’s line. You bought a day. Now the day is up. And the honest answer is you can’t. Not “don’t want to.” Can’t. The Challenge: you think there are only two answers Yes and no are the only answers most of us were ever...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com It happens in a hallway. Or in the two minutes before a meeting starts. Or in a text on a Saturday morning. "Hey, can you cover the quality committee this quarter?" You have about thirty seconds. In that window you run no analysis, open no calendar, and weigh nothing. You say yes. Then you spend the next three months paying for a decision you never actually made. The Challenge: you are not deciding, you...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com It is Wednesday. The plan you made Sunday is already gone. Someone called out. A patient decompensated. The meeting ran long and took your block with it. Here is what most of us do about it. Nothing. We notice Friday afternoon, decide the week was a wash, and wait for Sunday to start over. That is a four-day gap between the plan breaking and anyone looking at it. The Challenge: you find out too late to do...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com Sunday night. You already know what's coming. Monday clinic, the meeting nobody can explain, the notes from Friday still sitting open. So you do what most of us do. You brace. Bracing is not planning. Bracing is agreeing in advance to whatever the week hands you. Twenty minutes tonight changes that. Not a system. Not another app. One sitting, once a week, before the week starts making decisions on your...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com Last week you ran one prompt and had a conversation you had been avoiding. A few of you replied to tell me which one. Thank you. Here is what happens next, and it is the part almost everyone gets wrong. You use AI. You save twenty minutes on the inbox. Ten on the patient letter. Fifteen on the committee summary you did not want to write. Forty-five minutes back. And by Friday you cannot point to a single...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
The Weekly Reset AI and productivity for busy physicians PhysicianCoachingSolutions.com You have your AI tool. Good. Now here’s what to do with it. Every physician I coach is avoiding at least one conversation right now. The patient who wants antibiotics they do not need. The colleague who keeps missing deadlines. The administrator who added another metric to your dashboard without asking. None of these get easier by waiting. The Challenge: You Rehearse in the Wrong Place You already rehearse...
2 months ago • 2 min read