Dr Kevin Pho, founder KevinMD.com “Social Media’s Leading Physician Voice" schools Matt, Paul and Stuart on a potpourri of topics including physician advocacy, the dangers and benefits of social media, the pros and cons of electronic health records, health policy, health advocacy and lastly primary care and the integration of advanced practice providers/clinicians. Special thanks to Dr Chris Chiu who helped produce the show and write our show notes.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro
00:54 Picks of the week
06:58 Getting to know our guest
10:30 Why physicians need to understand health policy
11:21 Best advice Dr Poh has received in his career and why variety is important to avoid burnout
13:45 Advice to young physicians about to start using social media
16:40 Why are physicians afraid of social media
18:54 Risks of social media
21:20 Discussion of “Twitter bates” aka debates
23:20 Physician advocacy and social media
26:18 The next big health care debate...is it a right?
31:03 Why electronic health records are so painful to use?
34:49 How can charting be worked into clinic workflow?
37:50 Conspiracy theories on EHRs
39:11 Advanced practice providers/clinicians
46:40 Primary care shortage
50:16 Growth of medical administrators and how to take back control as physicians
52:38 Advice on how to break into medical writing
54:08 Paul ends the show with some wisdom and steals the show
55:59 Outro

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