Offcall Physician Spotlight: Meet Dr. John Dayton
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1) John, what’s one boundary you wish you had set earlier in your career? I wish I had learned sooner that being available all the time doesn’t make you a better doctor, it just makes you a more exhausted one. This extends to doing work outside of clinical practice. When I started working with venture funds and advising digital health companies, I’d meet whenever they wanted. Often this led to me taking afternoon calls when I was in the middle of a set of night shifts. That basically meant I was meeting with them at 2AM. I didn’t have the confidence to change the time and I didn’t realize they were fine connecting in the early morning or late afternoon. Don’t make that mistake.
2) What AI tools have made the most impact on your practice and why? I’m a big fan of clinical decision support tools like OpenEvidence, Vera Health, Doximity’s DoxGPT and UpToDate Expert AI. I use these for particularly challenging clinical situations, but I also use them to personalize discharge instructions for my patients. Even though clinical decision support tools are sexy, as a healthcare investor and startup adviser, I’m particularly interested in AI operational tools, such as how AI can improve efficiency with clinical scheduling, improve workflows, and be used to provide patient summaries for transition of care.
3) AI just prescribed medications autonomously in Utah. Should doctors be scared or embrace this?
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