Supporting physicians and others in medicine with their well-being by addressing mindset, charting, and more!
From FREE Charting Tips PDF to a charting course with group coaching, there are resources available to help you take your next step!
Wellbeing in Medicine Podcast (formerly the MedEdWell Podcast)
Claim This Podcastby Dr. Ryan Stegink
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Supporting physicians and others in medicine with their well-being by addressing mindset, charting, and more! From FREE Charting Tips PDF to a charting course with group coaching, there are resources available to help you take your next step!
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Recent Episodes
April 6, 2026
Containment: The Missing Skill in Modern Medicine
<div>In Episode 84, we named the problem: spillover. Today we turn to the structural solution — and why most physicians were never taught it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Containment is the skill of designing the workday so clinical work stays largely within the workday. It's not about efficiency. It's not about typing faster or using better templates. It's about closing cognitive loops earlier in the workflow — before they accumulate into the evening.</div> <div> </div> <div>Dr. Ryan Stegink explains why containment is absent from medical training, how it differs from efficiency, and what it protects: attention, identity, recovery, and the sustainable practice of medicine.</div> <div> </div> <div>Key concepts covered:</div> <div>∙ Containment defined: designing the system to close loops whenever possible</div> <div>∙ Why medical training teaches clinical competence but not containment</div> <div>∙ Efficiency vs. containment: moving tasks faster vs. finishing them sooner</div> <div>∙ Unfinished thinking as the primary drain on physician attention</div> <div>∙ How containment creates margin for the unexpected</div> <div>∙ Containment as protection for physician identity beyond clinical roles</div> <div>∙ What containment looks like in practice</div> <div> </div> <div> <div>Resources mentioned:</div> <div>∙ Free Charting Tips PDF: <a href= "https://www.mededwell.com/chartingtips">mededwell.com/chartingtips</a></div> <div>∙ Work with Dr. Stegink one-on-one: <a href= "https://www.mededwell.com/change">mededwell.com/change</a></div> <div> </div> Previous episode: The Hidden Cost of Spillover (EP84)</div> <div> </div> <div>Next episode: The Attention Problem in Medicine (EP86)</div>
March 23, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Spillover
<div>Most physicians know what spillover feels like — notes after dinner, inbox on weekends, the clinical day that never quite ends. But the real cost of spillover isn't just time. It's the attention tax: the quiet fragmentation of presence that accumulates across evenings, family dinners, and the moments that were supposed to be something other than work.</div> <div> </div> <div>In this episode, Dr. Ryan Stegink explores why spillover is so persistently normalized in medicine, what it's actually costing physicians beyond hours worked, and why the solution isn't efficiency — it's structure.</div> <div> </div> <div>Key concepts covered:</div> <div>∙ Spillover defined: clinical work leaking beyond the boundaries of the workday</div> <div>∙ The cognitive cost of open loops and unfinished tasks</div> <div>∙ Emotional spillover from difficult encounters</div> <div>∙ The attention tax: how spillover reduces presence even when you're not actively working</div> <div>∙ Why spillover is a structural problem that effort alone cannot solve</div> <div>∙ Containment as the structural alternative to spillover</div> <div> </div> <div>Resources mentioned:</div> <div>∙ Free Charting Tips PDF: <a href= "https://www.mededwell.com/chartingtips">mededwell.com/chartingtips</a></div> <div>∙ Work with Dr. Stegink one-on-one: <a href= "https://www.mededwell.com/change">mededwell.com/change</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Next episode: Containment: The Missing Skill in Modern Medicine</div>
March 9, 2026
Why Charting Isn't the Real Problem in Medicine
<p>Many physicians assume that if they could simply chart faster, their workday would feel lighter.</p> <p> </p> <p>But over time I've come to believe that charting itself is rarely the root problem.</p> <p> </p> <p>The deeper issue is something quieter and harder to see: spillover.</p> <p> </p> <p>Spillover happens when work slowly leaks beyond the boundaries of the clinic day. It might look like finishing notes after dinner, answering inbox messages at night, or mentally replaying patient encounters long after leaving the clinic.</p> <p> </p> <p>For many physicians this pattern becomes so normal that it barely registers as a problem. But over months and years, spillover gradually erodes margin, fragments attention, and makes it harder to be fully present with patients, family, and ourselves.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of the Wellbeing in Medicine Podcast, we explore:</p> <p> </p> <p>• why charting speed alone rarely solves documentation stress</p> <p>• how spillover shows up in everyday physician life</p> <p>• why efficiency is helpful but incomplete</p> <p>• the concept of containment in clinical workflows</p> <p>• how designing the structure of a workday can restore margin</p> <p> </p> <p>Sustainable medicine isn't about decreasing responsibility.</p> <p> </p> <p>It's about organizing responsibility so that it can fit within a life.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Resources Mentioned</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Charting Efficiency Checkup (Free Quiz)</p> <p>A short diagnostic to help physicians identify where documentation friction is occurring in their workflow.</p> <p>https://www.mededwell.com/quiz</p> <p> </p> <p>1:1 Physician Workflow Consultation</p> <p>If you'd like help thinking through containment strategies and workflow redesign in your own practice:</p> <p>https://chartingandthriving.com/change</p>
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