by Torie Sepah MD | Mar 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups We know implicitly that patient satisfaction survey scores are biased against women, doctors of color, and physicians who are...
by Torie Sepah MD | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Martin Luther King, Jr. America is far from a perfect country. The history that set the foundation of this nation is on one hand its greatest challenge to overcome, and on the other, an endless fuel for change. America has as a result, produced great minds—timeless...
by Torie Sepah MD | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Media’s Double Standard Updated: Mar 17, 2020 I am a Jew and a physician who specializes in psychiatry. I couldn’t help but notice in reading the coverage of the “Hannukah Stabber” in almost every news outlet, including NPR‘s first story (which was later edited)...
by Torie Sepah MD | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Virtual scribes are game-changers for physicians Me and my “virtual” scribe — an actual person who seems to “virtually” to exist inside of a Jabra speaker on my desk and so subtlety that I forgot to mute a few times when not seeing patients. The “man” in the Jabra...
by Torie Sepah MD | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
I draw the line at calling the physician experience a ‘Human Rights Violations”. Our profession as physicians is in crisis, but “human rights violations” and “moral injury” are inaccurate terms to use. It may be surprising to some that I am writing this...