Harrison Reed, PA-C, advises fellow clinicians to acknowledge and manage their decision fatigue in the
In Practice blog.
After 10 hours of seeing patients, physician assistant Harrison Reed found he couldn't make a simple decision about where to eat, which he recognized as a symptom of decision fatigue. Given the potentially serious consequences of clinician decision fatigue for patients seen late in the day, or at the end of a shift, he offers some strategies to manage it — in this week's In Practice blog.
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