Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM

she/her | Family Physician | Doctor Mom @MassGeneral @harvardmed working on #healthequity where the rubber meets the road #SDoH #primarycare #LifestyleMedicine

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

Oh, I realized suddenly.

It’s not that I’m not smart enough or don’t know enough.

It’s burnout.

I took my own advice.
I cut back.
I put exercise on my calendar.
I learned to meditate.
I started writing.

I feel better.

I still see patients.

#ShareAStoryInOneTweet

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

For folks out there feeling balanced between their professional and personal lives (whatever that looks like for you), how do you do it? Full time (FT) with strong boundaries? Part time? Other?

Please share your struggles and pearls!

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

@PaulNWilliamz took me about 6 years post residency to be confident that I’m a generalist and I like it

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

@nat_yjohnson @MGHEquity @PublicHealth @APHAAnnualMtg @GladysPachasMD @EJFloresMD @ClaudeAlabre @Jbetancourtpr @ChiangRaposo congrats!! impressive work

[Gavin Preston, M.D. @GavinPrestonMD]

Doctors are in a very difficult position.
We have absolute accountability, combined with minimal authority.

[Joe Thomas, MD, FHM @DocWithBowtie]

I wrote a brief summary of the new RSV vaccines (for those >60 and pregnant people) and monoclonal antibody (for infants). I’d love it if you’d read and share with anyone that might benefit! https://t.co/eKt1m0XgDk

[Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP @gradydoctor]

I woke up this morning and saw this on the front of @TheLancet. A quote from my manuscript. As the feature article. A narrative.

Whew.

Along with redefining what a professor looks like, it makes me happy to help expand what scholarship looks like, too.

Yeah.

#storiescount 💛

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

@DrZedZha we should all ask for more spice when it is called for!!

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

Twitter is a mixed bag, but it did bring me a great friend in @DrZedZha! Turns out you can have role models that are younger than you 😍

[Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @DrZedZha]

Twitter friends who later became writing group friends and now real world friends!! 🫶🫶 @SarahMatMDMPH

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

maybe all of our ruined summer vacation plans will motivate us to mobilize for #ClimateAction.

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

The primary care Catch22. If you don’t click away, you will burn out from admin overload after hours. But if you do click away, you will burn out from lack of presence and connection.

[Zed Zha, MD, FAAFP @DrZedZha]

In clinic, I’m constantly pulled between wanting to do work on the computer & wanting to listen to the patient. I hope my divided attention isn’t obvious. But I want to #AskThePatient .

Is it obvious when your doctor is distracted? If so, please comment how it makes you feel. 🫶

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

the best thing the health system could do for patients is to protect each clinician’s ability to be human.

[American College of Lifestyle Medicine @ACLifeMed]

ACLM applauds @NYCMayor's plant-based resolution, subsequently ratified by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to fight disease, climate crisis, and ensure fiscal sustainability.

Read the full release: https://t.co/IK0XmmRho9

[Lisa Rotenstein MD @LisaRotenstein]

🚨New in @JAMIA_Journal with @AJHolmgren 🚨we find that the gender disparity in electronic inbox burden increased post-pandemic

Our data underscores a need to consider & compensate for the work associated with the EHR inbox, esp given disproportionate impact on women docs

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

"The trouble of greed is so big I have trouble finding purchase.

Financial greed is eroding the foundation of success of medicine - which is the shared pursuit of the mission of healing.

We must dissent."

@donberwick @TheIHI #IHI2022

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

i’d like us all to try hard when we discuss public health crises to, in the same breath, speak to policy solutions.

health is policy
policy is politics
politics is local

we can do this.

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

@DrZedZha @DrGRuralMD @Margaret1473 @dynamic_fatima @_mooncube @youmnasheriff @krlichtenberg @AriannaCredifo1 @IMG_Advocate @ECFMG_IMG @ProjectImg @ImgJourney @StoriesImg so glad to be in community with you!! FM ❤️❤️❤️

[Lori Gottlieb @LoriGottlieb1]

Curious about what *really* happens in therapy?

So many people wonder what actually happens in therapy. Many people don’t go when they might benefit because of stigma, gross misconceptions about what therapy actually looks like (hello, TV and movies!), and access.

#thread 🧵

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

@PaulNWilliamz Start with a social history when you’re first meeting someone or for physicals. I keep this very open ended. “I’d like to start by getting to know you. Tell me what life looks like for you.” or “What’s life like these days? What is keeping you busy?”

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

often the unifying etiology is trauma.

[Sarah Matathia MD MPH DipABLM @SarahMatMDMPH]

may you find the places you feel still and linger.