Ow!

Seriously. Ow.

Information Overload

There is just way too much to assimilate in an orderly fashion. Everything from the marital status of my patients, hip clicking syndrome is a thing, billing codes, anything new in the literature.....

XKCD

No great words of wisdom, no tricks I've found for dealing with this (aside from putting everything patient related into the EMR, no matter how trivial, and everything knowledge related into Evernote with extensive labels). 

I keep being told that I will know my patients in 5 years and that things will seem better then. The patients that I am getting to know do make my days easier to deal with. Instead of having to look up their comorbidities constantly, I have a handle on what may be causing the crisis du jour. That very few of these illnesses are actually controlled yet is a whole other issue. 

I may have been this doc

(608): The only thing worse than cracking my rib on a slip and slide was having the doctors laugh when they found out in my medical history that I did this exact same thing last summer.

TFLN