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Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups

Torie Sepah MD

Mar 17
4 min

Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups

We know implicitly that patient satisfaction survey scores are biased against women.

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Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 21
3 min

The Media’s Double Standard

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...

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Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 21
1 min

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 overco...

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I draw the line at calling the physician experience a 'Human Rights Violations".

Torie Sepah, MD

Oct 24, 2019
5 min

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 surpr...

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Virtual scribes are game-changers for physicians

Torie Sepah, MD

Oct 24, 2019
5 min

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...

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What the Patient Doesn’t Know Will Harm Them: The Not So Innocuous “Provider” Effect

Torie Sepah, MD

Jun 30, 2019
3 min

What the Patient Doesn’t Know Will Harm Them: The Not So Innocuous “Provider” Effect

JUNE 10, 2019 Language matters. The use of the word “provider” may seem innocuous, but it is significant both for patients and physicians...

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The problem with calling physician burnout a human rights violation or a moral injury

Torie Sepah MD

Jun 20, 2019
5 min

The problem with calling physician burnout a human rights violation or a moral injury

Our profession is in crisis, but “human rights violations” and “moral injury” are inaccurate terms to use.

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Language matters: the not-so-innocuous provider effect

Torie Sepah, MD

Jun 10, 2019
3 min

Language matters: the not-so-innocuous provider effect

Language matters. The use of the word “provider” may seem innocuous, but it is significant both for patients and physicians.

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Torie Sepah, MD

May 20, 2019
3 min

What does $34K cost?

A swimming pool. Most of a Tesla. Not nearly enough to have your kid swapped out during their sham SAT test. Nor would an ICU bill for a ...

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$34,000 to save mothers and their children from postpartum depression

Torie Sepah, MD

May 7, 2019
10 min

$34,000 to save mothers and their children from postpartum depression

A swimming pool. Most of a Tesla. Not nearly enough to have your kid swapped out during their sham SAT test. Nor would an ICU bill for a ...

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What it’s like to practice medicine behind bars

Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 10, 2019
2 min

What it’s like to practice medicine behind bars

I hear many comments and genuine inquiries about being a physician in a prison. They’re all well-meaning yet hint at how little is known...

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Female physicians and the fiberglass ceiling

Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 10, 2019
4 min

Female physicians and the fiberglass ceiling

A male physician — one who sits on multiple committees at a large hospital in Dallas — was recently quoted in the Dallas Medical Journal,...

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Torie Sepah, MD

Dec 23, 2018
4 min

Who is who? Not every "Doctor" is a Physician. Patients Deserve Transparancy. By Torie Sepah, MD

Recently, a form showed up on my desk to sign, approval for something or other. Not uncommon, given my role at the time as a chief psychi...

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Torie Sepah, MD

Dec 1, 2018
4 min

To save lives, its time to normalize psychiatry once and for all. By Torie Sepah, MD

I’ve thought a great deal about what to say, if anything, about the two suicides recently of two people who were not merely celebrities i...

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Torie Sepah MD

Sep 25, 2018
4 min

Female physicians and the fiberglass ceiling

As a female physician, I have made it this far mostly by downplaying any aspect of being a woman.

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It’s time to create the safety net by normalizing psychiatric care

Torie Sepah MD

Jun 17, 2018
4 min

It’s time to create the safety net by normalizing psychiatric care

As a physician, I’ve been exposed many times to untimely death — whether intentional or due to a childhood cancer or a catastrophic accident

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How psychiatrists became lesser physicians

Torie Sepah, MD

Feb 28, 2018
4 min

How psychiatrists became lesser physicians

As formidable advocates for the practice of medicine, it makes sense for us to identify as what we are fundamentally: physicians.

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Torie Sepah, MD

Nov 30, 2017
2 min

What it’s like to practice medicine behind bars

I hear many comments and genuine inquiries about being a physician in a prison. They’re all well-meaning yet hint at how little is known.

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Torie Sepah MD

Mar 17
4 min

Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups

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Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 21
3 min

The Media’s Double Standard

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Torie Sepah, MD

Jan 21
1 min

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Torie Sepah, MD

Oct 24, 2019
5 min

I draw the line at calling the physician experience a 'Human Rights Violations".

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Torie Sepah, MD

Oct 24, 2019
5 min

Virtual scribes are game-changers for physicians

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Torie Sepah, MD

Jun 30, 2019
3 min

What the Patient Doesn’t Know Will Harm Them: The Not So Innocuous “Provider” Effect

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Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups

The Media’s Double Standard

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I draw the line at calling the physician experience a 'Human Rights Violations".

Virtual scribes are game-changers for physicians

What the Patient Doesn’t Know Will Harm Them: The Not So Innocuous “Provider” Effect

The problem with calling physician burnout a human rights violation or a moral injury

Language matters: the not-so-innocuous provider effect

What does $34K cost?

$34,000 to save mothers and their children from postpartum depression

What it’s like to practice medicine behind bars

Female physicians and the fiberglass ceiling

Who is who? Not every "Doctor" is a Physician. Patients Deserve Transparancy. By Torie Sepah, MD

To save lives, its time to normalize psychiatry once and for all. By Torie Sepah, MD

Female physicians and the fiberglass ceiling

It’s time to create the safety net by normalizing psychiatric care

How psychiatrists became lesser physicians

What it’s like to practice medicine behind bars

Patient Survey Satisfaction Scores Are Biased Against Protected Groups

The Media’s Double Standard

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I draw the line at calling the physician experience a 'Human Rights Violations".

Virtual scribes are game-changers for physicians

What the Patient Doesn’t Know Will Harm Them: The Not So Innocuous “Provider” Effect