by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai, Politics, Twitter
Should physicians tweet about politics? Usually, my answer is no. If you’re ikigai – your mission – is to help out individual patients, then it can only hurt you. For example, if you are a cardiovascular surgeon, whose principal mission is to care so...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Habit
I review my weekly goal list every day for a few minutes each morning. I review my yearly goal list every Sunday morning, to help me create my weekly goal list. This usually takes about half an hour. I review my life’s purpose list (yes, it is written down!) twice a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Product Reviews
I find my rate-limiting step in producing high quality, high-volume blog content is the grammatical editing process. However, I may finally have a handle on this. For the past several weeks, I’ve been using the free version of an app called Grammarly. And guess...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Healthcare Innovation
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas? Maybe one in a hundred. Great ideas? Once a year. THE idea? Once in a lifetime – if you are lucky. Having ideas is an intuitive process, one with an element of randomness. Certainly, this intuition and randomness can be...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue, Social Media
I deeply believe if a healthcare organization doesn’t have clarity of mission then their social media efforts can often just be a waste of time: a one-person offshoot of the marketing department, or an irritating digital space where negative patient comments...
