Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

I have been wanting to do an episode for a while geared towards health care providers, but I have

been hesitant just because it's not kind of part of the core content of this show, and I know

that it's not necessarily relevant to the entire audience. That said, I think it might be interesting

because we all experience health care as patients, even if we don't experience it

as providers. And so maybe this will provide a useful perspective to some. And I know that if you

are in health care, some of these tips might seem obvious. And yet some of them might give you

permission to do things you've wanted to do for a while or try for a while. This is all about

trial and error. I 100% feel like I've gotten more efficient in my medical provider role with

time. And to take a step back, let me do a little bit of an intro in that I'm a pediatric

endocratologist and I have practiced full time for a while and then kind of in a hybrid role doing

some residency program director work and now I work part time fully clinical in a 60% position.

So I'm three days a week seeing patients for those days and then the other two days I am at

home doing podcasting stuff and you know related to the media that you are enjoying right now

or on the blog or on best of both worlds. So all of that said, I am doing this episode for my

own personal experience and it should not be taken as official medical advice or

coming from my professional capacity

as an employed physician.

This is just kind of my personal opinions on what has worked for me in terms of efficiency

over the years, from what I've gleaned throughout my training, through some of the

toughest years of practicing that I had, which were those when I had babies and was

pumping. My goodness, there is really nothing worse, honestly, than having to do your patient

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