Pelzman's Picks: Avoiding Burnout Made Easy

• Avoiding burnout might be as simple as tweaking attitudes and approaches, Martin A. Samuels, MD, writes in The Health Care Blog ~ The Antidote to Physician Burnout: A Nine Step Program
• "In-the-wild data" from activity trackers may help crack the fitness nut, Alex Hutchinson reports in the New York Times ~ How a Fitbit May Make You a Bit Fit
• Discharge planning is under-celebrated, but so very necessary for patients, Dhruv Khullar, MD, argues in the New York Times ~ Most Dangerous Time at the Hospital? It May Be When You Leave
• Rethinking the bundling model could help improve cost control, Regina E. Herzlinger, DBA, and colleagues, report in JAMA ~ Health Care Delivery Innovations That Integrate Care? Yes! But Integrating What?
• A look at new models of primary care delivery around the country that are improving patient health while reducing cost, by Glen Stream, MD, in Medical Economics ~ Examining the resurgence of primary care
• Now that healthcare communities essentially know what the problems are, taking these five steps is the second half of the battle, Brian Castrucci writes in Huffington Post ~ What I Know From G.I. Joe: Knowing Is Only Half the Battle

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.

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Pelzman's Picks: Avoiding Burnout Made Easy