Hi, I'm Sarah Smith.
I want to help you with all your charting, backlogs and anything else stopping you getting home on time with everything done!
My Story
I was 15 years as a General Practitioner/Family Physician and I was still unable to tell my husband what time I would be home. I had that familiar experience of never being done, unfinished charts, inboxes begging for my attention.
I loved the patients but hated the job. If someone mentioned a new preventative care intervention, even the smallest suggestion of "just one more thing" would leave me feeling disheartened and overwhelmed.
I asked all my mentors and I read everything on how to create an amazing clinical day. Multiple mentors told me "just come in Sunday". I wanted to scream, that damned paperwork, it was never ever ever done.
I would get up at night to chart. Going on holidays was a nightmare. Often up until midnight the night before to complete inboxes and charts, often with a plane to catch at 0500 the following morning. It felt like it wasn't worth it!
Then one day I heard about life coaches. It peaked my interest. A life coach can help you with any problem. So I looked around and the only life coaches that helped physicians were helping doctors leave medicine. I was nearly at that point, but I really genuinely knew just how valuable the Family Physician is. I wasn't ready to leave medicine.
Then I stumbled on The Life Coach School Podcast. I highly recommend it but, be warned, it's life changing!! Brooke Castillo is the host, she said 'I can help any problem".
So I took her up on her offer. I paid for her coaching program and fixed my charting problem so completely that I had given myself the gift of evenings and weekend completely homework free! It was unbelievable. I could breathe, I could exercise. I could spend time with my family.
And then, I distilled all the skills I had learned, went back to school to become a Certified Life Coach. As a certified Life Coach I started coaching other physicians to have their weekends and evenings free also!
I honed my skills with hundreds and hundreds of hours coaching Physicians. I coached them all on improving office and workplace efficiency, finishing their charting and getting the work done. These were family doctors, neurologists, rheumatologists, O+G, sports medicine physicians, internal medicine physicians, pulminologists, physiatrists, rural emergency, clinic owner physicians, urgent care physicians, new graduates and 25+ year physicians etc.
Media Features
First of all, I had to be in enough pain to go looking for the answers. Simple solutions for complex problems. Listen to the full podcast episode here.
You didn't sign up for this. You don't have to drown in the paperwork. Listen to the full podcast episode to find out how.
Weight Solutions for Physicians Podcast: Interview with Dr Sarah Smith - How to Stop Charting at Night
You didn't sign up for this. You don't have to drown in the paperwork. Article by Dr. Sarah Smith
Alberta Medical Association: Optimizing Clinic & PCN Team Supports to Enhance Patient Care Using Panel Management Processes
I want to you to love being home in your evenings without worrying about all that paperwork you should be doing.
Maybe you want to take up running, get a new hobby, workout three times a week and get a full nights sleep. Simply be more present. Feel in Control Again.
Coaching is a powerful way to help you, especially a Physician Coach who is familiar with the pressures of being a Family Physician!
With all this experience I wanted to create for you the most simple, fast and effective tools to get this result for yourself. This is a program that is now known as Charting Champions.
Charting Champions combines simple fast on-demand teaching with a supportive community and lots of Physician Coaching. You get everything you need to get results. I am super excited that you can have such a streamlines process available to you!
No longer is the answer "just come in on Sunday's"!
I would love to help you have this result for yourself.
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