Jillian Bybee

Jun 12, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jillian Bybee |Natalie Enyedi |Ken Terry |Anand P. Lothe

Recently, a physician wrote about how access to a patient portal has turned his primary care practice into a reluctant concierge medicine practice, with patients asking questions and expecting quick responses day or night. I could relate. Modern technology is bringing a host of new, unexpected challenges to today’s physicians. Patient portals may provide a level of ease and efficiency, but, as the physician rightly pointed out, they also create confusion, concern, and more questions.

Jun 12, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jillian Bybee |Dike Drummond |Dawn Baker |Peter Ubel

Physician leaders: Are you committed to doing everything you possibly can to prevent physician suicide? This CHAP is how you answer that question. This document contains two steps that will ensure you do everything possible to be there for your people when they need you the most. A simple audit that will show you how badly you fail to support your struggling doctors. It will take you less than 15 minutes to complete.

Jun 9, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jillian Bybee |Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Nicholas Bellacicco

In Gerald Green’s The Last Angry Man, Dr. Samuel Abelman is a general practitioner in the twilight of a career that spans fifty years of commitment to patients. The time is the 1950s, and the place is Brooklyn, NY. The problem is the proliferation of medical specialties. Although most of his colleagues regard specialization as a greater good because it promises better-trained physicians, Dr. Abelman sees specialization as antithetical to his mission.

Jun 8, 2024 | ramaonhealthcare.com | Jillian Bybee

5 lessons for a better life: observations from a front row seat for the highs and lows KevinMD June 8, 2024Jillian Bybee, MDRecently, I had the privilege of being shadowed by a medical student who is interested in becoming a pediatric critical care medicine physician like I am. On the day she came to observe me, we were navigating a busy and heartbreaking time in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Jun 8, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jillian Bybee |Scott Abramson |Aaron Morgenstein |Amy Bissada

Don’t blame others for the burned-out road you are on: It is your own “Ass-Phalt.”OK. I know that sounds harsh. We, physicians and other clinicians suffer under the demands of irrelevant EMR guidelines, insensitive hospital administrators, and tyrannical medical–big pharma dictates. However, all these are “external” forces. They are not our “phault.” But what about the “internal” forces, forces that may be, in some way, our “phault” (or at least under our control)?