Progress Notes is PCP’s mostly guest-written blog. It’s a place to find positive, inspiring stories about primary care and leadership we might not see anywhere else. Interested in contributing? Contact us.
Progress Notes Blog
Examining the Links Between Burnout and Trauma
Should the medical community start diagnosing and treating clinician burnout the same way as trauma?
Reflecting on the Research: How Do You Tell the Story of Burnout?
Within a few conversations, the enormity of our task was clear. To lend your voice to this powerful exploration of attitudes, challenges, and opportunities in primary care, contact us.
Moving from Thoughts and Prayers to Action
Are the challenges of our dysfunctional healthcare system grave enough — and the existential challenges to health professionals dire enough — to take action — not as individuals, but as a collective?
When Care Coordination Saves Lives
Care coordinators remain present for our most vulnerable patients, sometimes answering the most important calls that can make all the difference.
Leadership Development Research
Contact us to learn more and participate in PCP’s important research endeavor, focused on what it takes to lead in primary care today.
Lessons in Launching a Team (and Career) at Primary Care Progress
Early in 2018, seven students at Bryant University joined me on a parallel path of uncharted waters: launching our lives into Primary Care Progress.
Structured Discussion Groups Can Prevent Burnout
I wish I had known then what I know now about Balint groups – their powerful capacity to provide meaning and prevent burnout among physicians.
Welcoming 2018 with a Challenge
2017 was unprecedented. This year, let’s rock the boat by doing something bold, provocative, and maybe just a little crazy. Let’s launch a thousand movements. #WeCanDoThis
The Hidden Work of Primary Care
I sat at my desk astonished after her exit. By all current billing standards, I had done nothing. I had spent no more than fifteen minutes with Alice and had done nothing more than explain in layman’s terms what had taken place in her recent ER visit.
Leading the Transformation of Primary Care
On days when it seems the paperwork and mouse clicks are endless, it is difficult to appreciate the changes we are seeing in primary care. There are still significant bureaucratic and financial barriers between physicians and their relationships with patients, but things are starting to change.