sarah smith, md

Sarah J. Smith is a family physician and can be reached at the Charting Coach. She can also be reached on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Dr. Smith is also a certified life coach specializing in helping family physicians stop charting at night and create time for the things they love.

She created a space for physicians to come together as a supportive community, working together to become Charting Champions.

Physicians: How taking care of the backlog and can help take care of yourself

Physician
February 5, 2021

A backlog is a terrible thing, isn’t it? It’s certainly something that we often choose to hide as physicians. We use it as a source of shame, guilt, frustration, and overwhelm. Many physicians have had their jobs threatened, or even lost their jobs, due to mountains of unfinished charts or inboxes.

When you understand this, you can see why you would keep that sort of thing to yourself. Every day the …

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Physicians: How taking care of the backlog and can help take care of yourself

You didn’t sign up for this. You don’t have to drown in the paperwork.

Physician
January 15, 2021

This is not what I signed up for.

Have you ever said this when you are rushing home 1.5 hours after the last patient left and you still haven’t finished all your charting? You grab a handful of forms to take home with you with the hopeful expectation that you will get them done tonight too. After you have done “enough” to appear to be a present parent and prepared supper …

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You didn’t sign up for this. You don’t have to drown in the paperwork.