I help physicians and healthcare leaders build more sustainable clinic days by improving workflow, reducing hidden work, and getting charting done faster. FREE charting tips PDF at link below.
What it actually costs when a doctor leaves
Replacing one physician who leaves from burnout costs an organization real money — for many organizations, $500K or more once you factor in recruitment, lost productivity, and the loss of institutional knowledge and mentoring capacity. That figure comes from Shanafelt, Goh, and Sinsky's 2017 paper, "The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-being." Nobody puts that number on a poster in the break room. But it's real, and it's part of why I think physician well-being isn't a nice-to-have — it's the fourth aim, alongside cost, quality, and patient satisfaction. If part of what's driving your own burnout is the charting that follows you home, I built something for that. The Charting Mastery Guide is the system I use to leave clinic on time — not by working faster, but by rebuilding how I chart. 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 getting charting done faster. FREE charting tips PDF at link below.
Seven consecutive two-out hits, eight runs, no homers...My late father-in-law called the Milwaukee baseball team, those "pesky Brewers." (Yes he was a Cubs fan)Even if you aren't into baseball, there are lessons from the 2026 World Series that can help you with your charting. A turning point came in Game 3, when the Brewers compiled seven consecutive two-out hits, eight runs, yet no home runs...It was IMPRESSIVE! (Subsequently the Brewers won the game 10-1 and the series a couple days...
You matter because you're human. Not because of how many patients you saw today. Not because of what you produced. That's worth remembering on the hard days — and I think it's easy to forget when the schedule's packed and the charts are piling up. Part of why I built The Charting Mastery Guide wasn't just to help you finish charting faster. It was to hand back a little of the time and headspace that gets eaten by a system that doesn't always remember your worth the way it should. Instant...
I've been quieter in your inbox the last couple months — busier clinical season, kids back in school, the usual fall chaos. Didn't want that silence to feel like I disappeared. I'm still here, still posting, still thinking about how to make charting and medicine more sustainable for physicians. If you've been following along on YouTube or TikTok, you've probably seen some of the reflections I've been sharing lately — on burnout, on AI scribes, on what we actually owe our teams and ourselves....