#70 KevinMD: Kevin Explains Everything

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. Full show notes available at http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast Join our mailing list and receive a PDF copy of our show notes every Monday. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at [email protected].  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  Tags: kevinmd, advocacy, policy, health, care, ehr, chart, advanced, practice, clinician, physician, meded, foamed, social, media, twitter, kevin, pho, nurse, practitioner, medicine, internal, family, primary, education, internist, hospitalist