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Dealing with the post-vacation pile up

Aug 13, 2009 10:00 EDT


Returning from vacation can be overwhelming as piles of journals, files, charts and general mail—not to mention electronic correspondence—crowd the office and beg for immediate attention. How do you manage time away and the stressful period right after when you wonder if your vacation was such a good idea?





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Dealing with the post-vacation pile up
# 1 of 4
August 14, 2009 09:16 (EDT)
Asad Karim

I enjoyed your analysis and echo your feelings.  Personally just came back from a 10 day vacation earlier in the week and on the 3rd day I have yet to get caught up on the mountains of charts, mails, studies that have to be analyzed.

The way I plan to tackle this problem is to work 1/2 day on the weekend to catch up. I find it easier to get things accomplished with less distractions around.  However, personally this is usually a long drawn process. 

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October 10, 2009 07:00 (EDT)
Roy87
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October 13, 2009 04:59 (EDT)
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October 13, 2009 04:59 (EDT)
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About Dr Seth Bilazarian
Seth Bilazarian MD has been a Clinical and Interventional Cardiologist at Pentucket Medical Associates in Massachusetts since 1993. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, Vascular Ultrasound, Interventional Cardiology, and Vascular and Endovascular Medicine.

Dr Bilazarian performs coronary and peripheral interventions at Lahey Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been an investigator in the interventional laboratory for new devices including drug-eluting stents, distal protection devices, imaging devices (OCT and InfraRed), and anticoagulant pharmacotherapy.

Dr Bilazarian is an active participant in clinical trials in congestive heart failure, hypertension, coronary disease prevention, prediabetes management, anemia, atrial fibrillation, and anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapies in the outpatient setting. He has authored numerous papers and book chapters in clinical cardiology. He was appointed as a physician advisor to the circulatory device panel of the FDA in 2008.
About this blog
My intent is to create a forum for dialogue on issues pertinent to private practice cardiology around topics such as:

  • Integration of new data and guidelines on inpatient and outpatient practice in clinical and interventional cardiology
  • Practice approaches to the extra clinical issues in dealing with managed care insurers
  • Strategies for navigating the restrictions of pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) on pharmacologic therapies for our patients
  • Experiences with restrictions on testing and imaging
The video blog (VLOG) will provide an opportunity to share broadly different approaches to the common conundrums we face in caring for patients. My hope is that this forum will provide useful data points for practice outside of tertiary and academic centers and a look inside community hospitals and physician?s practice patterns in the office, starting with mine.