Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: November 20, 2024
These pieces of patient art are utilitarian, drawn to narrate the story of what brought them to see me. Yet patients often add superfluous detail.<...
News
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: October 23, 2024
We’ve a unique communications conundrum in that we often need patients to understand a complex idea, but only have minutes to get them there. We do...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: September 26, 2024
Remember you, the doctor, are good inside as is your discourteous patient, disaffected staff member, or sometimes mendacious teenager.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: August 26, 2024
Somehow, this romanticizing of women in old-fashioned homemaking roles, cooking, cleaning, and caring for children is trending in 2024.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: July 26, 2024
AI scribes will be ubiquitous soon; I’m fast and even for me they save time.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: June 26, 2024
Maybe try reading more novels. They allow us to experience multiple lifetimes in a short time, which is what we need to learn what matters.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: May 23, 2024
The idea that I or my colleagues are unwilling to do whatever is necessary to meet our patients' needs was maddening. We dedicate our lives to it.<...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: April 23, 2024
The ability to compartmentalize is useful not only to become Masters champion, but also to become master of your day.
News
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: March 27, 2024
Much as I'd like to think I'm on trend, I don't believe self-improvement in the mundane will catch fire like taking magnesium or Wim Hof breathing....
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: February 14, 2024
Having crossed the midpoint of life, I see with the benefit of perspective how suffering has afforded me wisdom: I am more sensitive and attuned to...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: January 19, 2024
For much of the work we do, precise likelihoods aren't critical. Yet, it can be important in decision making and in discussing probabilities, such ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: December 20, 2023
Ostensibly, we complain to effect change: Something is wrong and we expect it to be different. But that’s not the whole story.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: November 16, 2023
There were no commutes or late patients here. But there was work to be done.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: October 17, 2023
As a new doc out of residency, I used to wear a tie and shoes that could hold a shine. Now I wear jogger scrubs and sneakers.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: September 19, 2023
An itchy 73-year-old woman came to see me. She had seen several competent dermatologists, had comprehensive workups, and had reasonable, even aggre...
