Two Ears, One Mouth
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/epictetus-quotes I think it's a fairly common practice for doctors, at any level, intern, resident, attending to carry some kind of paper around. The more senior you are, the less you carry I find. This paper has patient names, perhaps jotted down conditions, and to do items. It might be folder hot dog style and tucked in a white coat pocked or event folder in four and tucked in a scrub pocket. But let's think about the to-dos When I'm on service, I definitely have a jotted list of to-dos or mental task list. Things like: narrow antibiotics, call pt's family, discuss goals of care I'd like the thing that my first meeting is more , personable. A hi, how are you going, how was your night? But given time constraints and a constant sense of throughput, we have to move things along. Mr. Crag (not his real name) was an ICU downgra...