Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas

Sometimes it's the bait and switch and then you're like in the basement like shoveling coal.

But that's not the case.

They were actually, I mean, transparent and it's worked out very well.

Yeah, so my week is really broken up, and that helps me compartmentalize each of the roles.

There always is overlap, but it fits.

kind of makes me more efficient because I can really focus.

I know we always say people can multitask, but if you really focus for like a concrete period of time, you can do so much more.

And so typically I operate on Mondays.

So anyone that I see during the week, I'll have an OR schedule on Monday.

My mind is committed to operating on Mondays.

I see patients Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the office.

And then Thursdays and Fridays are my academic days.

So those are the days that I write papers, write books, give lectures, go to the regions.

So one of the things that we're working on and part of my role is integration.

So it's figuring out how does this office run?

What do these physicians or team members need?

And then

hey, what are we doing well here that needs to happen there?

And making sure everyone's actively communicating because it's hard.

If you have nine different hospitals and you have 15 different offices, people don't know each other, right?