61. Working Smarter, Not Harder: A Physician Mom’s Guide to Using AI

Hey doc! For Doctor's Day, I'm giving you something actually useful - a guide to making AI work for you as a Physician mom.

In this episode of ✨Stethoscopes and Strollers✨, I break down why AI is the greatest gift since the internet itself, and why you shouldn't be afraid to use it.

I share:

• Why staying on technology's cutting edge is crucial for our profession
• Practical AI applications beyond medical documentation that save precious time
• My proven three-step method to get exceptional results from AI Tools.
• How to transform AI from a frustrating tool to your personal assistant

Key takeaways:

1. Setting proper context is essential for quality AI output
2. Detailed queries produce better results than vague questions
3. Continuous feedback refines AI responses to exactly what you need
4. Physician moms deserve technological shortcuts after years of doing things the hard way

You've already proven you can do hard things by becoming a Physician and a mother. Now it's time to make your life easier with tools that save you time and mental energy.

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Transcript

Hey Doc. Happy Belated Doctor's Day and Happy Belated Physician's Week. Let me tell you, I did not actually know that there was a physician's week because every place that I worked at Locums, they never celebrated Physician's Week. It was doctor's day. You got like some pizza and maybe some nicer food and a useless piece of branded.

like a mug or something like that. And that was it. They actually mixed it in with other quote unquote providers, and it was like, happy providers week so. I was not aware that there was a whole week for physicians. I'm very happy to hear that. And it has now passed. It was from March 25th to the 31st and Doctor's Day was on March 30th, and this podcast is gonna be released on the Wednesday after that.

So I still wanna. Wish you a Happy Doctor's Day and Physicians Week because you know, we celebrate physicians only here on stethoscopes and strollers, and I wanna talk about my special gift to you for Doctor's Day, and it is way better than any gift that your employer has given you in the past. It is the gift of ai. Yes, artificial intelligence. One of my favorite things to talk about and the thing that you're like, oh no, I hate ai. I'm gonna change your mind. So get ready because let me tell you. It is the greatest gift since the invention of the internet itself.

Yes, that is a bold statement, but it is 100% true . I just wanna start off with addressing all of your issues so that  we can get it out of the way and we can talk about the actual benefits, right.  So you may be thinking, you know, AI is terrible. It's taking away jobs. People are going to suffer.

It's really scary. We can't control it. I don't wanna be any part of it.  But I really think that us as physicians burying our heads in the sand about this inevitability in the progression of our technological advances as a society is the worst idea. It is just as bad as how the older generation dealt with the rise of mid-levels, and as far as I can tell, that definitely did not work out in our favor.

Instead of ignoring it, 

being disgusted by it. 

We should be embracing it. 

We should be learning 

how to use it

to its fullest capabilities 

and getting ahead of the curve

because the people

that are going to be left behind,

are the ones 

who don't know how to use it, 

don't know how to optimize it.

And I don't want you 

to be one of those people. 

And besides the fact 

that it is coming, 

whether we like it or not, 

it also can make your life 

so, so much easier, doc. 

And you know,

that is my main reason. 

That's my goal for you. 

To make this life 

as easy as possible. 

You have done enough. 

So no matter how you feel

about AI,

please listen to this episode

with an open mind 

and consider using it 

in the future.  

So the most common one that you may utilize currently and what most physicians currently utilize is gonna be as a scribe. and I know there are a lot of organizations and health systems that have . Integrated it. And it's great. It's helpful, but there is so much more, so much more  so I want you to think about it as your new search engine. 

So if you are like, 

I need to Google something, 

I need to research something, 

skip Google 

and go to chatGPT.

I never thought there would be a day 

where I would say skip Google. Or if you're a weirdo and you use Bing.

Yes, I am judging you. Usually this is a judgment free space, but if you use Bing, I am judging you. 

Skip the regular search engine 

and go to chatGPT. 

Because, instead of 

getting a bunch of results

that you still have to click on

and sort through it,

whatever, 

it's just gonna get you the information. It's gonna get you the sources, and then you can sort from there.

Of course there are mistakes. Of course, you have to double check anything.

But that that can happen 

when you Google stuff as well. There's so much fake news and all that stuff, right? So the issues about hallucinations and abstract and all of that, you can optimize the situation. So those things don't happen.

I'm gonna talk about that in a second. And just like everything else, you still have to trust but verify. 

So the way that I use AI the most is for my business. So I have. A program that helps me edit my podcast. So I don't need to have fancy editing equipment. I can just do it myself, which is what I do. It makes my sound sound beautiful. AI is the reason that I sound so wonderful in your air right now, and I use a different program called Claude that's really good with content.

So. I process my podcast episodes through Claude and repurpose and get social media content, emails, like all sorts of things. It's all my voice, it's all my content, just reworked, right? So anything that you are going to do anyway. Run it through AI to make it faster, easier, more efficient. Like if you are going to send that email and you couldn't figure out how to word it because you're really pissed off, but you wanna sound unprofessional and tell them, no, I'm not taking that extra call.

Type what you want. Then run it through AI to make it sound more professional and make sure that you don't lose your job before you want to leave. And so there are so many different ways. I had a pantry fill of uncooked food and I was like, Chachi pt, tell me what I can make with these ingredients. Give me a recipe.

I want it to be short. I want it to be healthy. I want it to be X, y, z. Boom, done. I want to create a homeschool plan for my son. I wanted to be inclusive. I wanted to be this, that, and the third. Boom. Done. So I hope I have beat this horse dead. You can use it for anything that you can think of and so many other things that you have not thought about yet.

 I feel like my husband is very good at this. Anything he needs to do while he's growing his business. He searches for an AI solution first, and you know how he searches for it in chat GPT. He ask Chat GPT, what? What AI solutions can I use for this? And then chat GPT gives it to him .

So let's talk about how to use it effectively so that you are not totally disgusted if I have actually convinced you to go and try it, because that's what happens. You are like, okay, let me see what this AI thing is about, and you go and use it and you're like, this is trash. Oh my God, I could have done better than this, but there are ways to use it so that that does not happen. And I do this with my clients all the time.  It's like a part-time job in my coaching business to convince my clients to start using ai. And I have a 100% conversion rate When I tell them, they go use it, and I get a message and I go, my God, this was amazing.

So now I'm sharing that gift with you. So there are a couple things that you are going to do to optimize the use of ai and in this situation it's gonna be chat, GPT. It's the most ubiquitous, it's the most extensive, tested, all of that. So I'm gonna assume that that's what you are using and then you're using the free version because there's even more stuff you can do with the paid version



So step one, you are going to give chat GPT context. You are going to tell it who you want it to be when it is generating the answer for you. So what that means is if I'm writing a job description for a new nanny, let's say I'm going to say you are a world-class hiring manager for the top nanny agency in the world. You service clients who are high earners professionals, highly educated, you, have been in the business for 30 years and find the absolute best candidates for your clients.

So you want to. Give it a context from which to generate the responses, and you wanna make sure that you know, they're, they're the best. So once you have given that context, then you ask the question, I need a nanny for these hours, for these tasks, for these aged children. Write me a job description that will find the best nanny possible. So that's a good question, but it's not a great question. So if you want to uplevel, you should give as much information about the question as possible.

I have written paragraphs, pages as my question. So it's really more context, but instead of giving the AI context to answer you, you are now giving the context for your question. So it's just like an interview. Like if you really went to a nanny agency, they would ask you all these questions about what you're looking for and all of that.

You want to tell the program all of the thoughts because just like a regular human, just like your husband, it cannot read your mind. So the more information you give to it, the better the output is gonna be. And I have to check what was my longest prompt? I'm gonna check right now. I'm gonna pause. Hold on.

Because of my wonderful AI editing program. I'm just gonna edit this out or maybe I'll leave it in, let me see. What was my longest prompt? I am looking at my longest prompt that I used when I was launching  the Connected Motherhood experience. It was 2000 words. It's actually a little bit more than 2000 words, but it was all of the thoughts that I had about the program, about what I envisioned, everything, the concerns that I had about the marketing and  who I wanted in the program, all of it.

So for the nanny example. Give it issues you've had in the past with previous nannies, concerns that you have about hiring a nanny. Like anything, just talk to it like it is a person, like it is this hiring manager who's gonna find you the best nanny ever. Give it all the context and then ask the question, help me write this job description.

So then after you have. Given it its context. You have given your context and your question, and you get your output, you get the response, and you're like, but this is crap. Or because you've done what I said. You're like, oh, this is pretty good, but this is a little bit weird. This is stated incorrectly. I don't really mean this.

Don't just say, well, this was okay. This was good enough, and let me just go edit it. No, no, no. Ease. Okay. Continue the conversation, give it feedback, and have it regenerate based on your feedback. And you can just say, I don't like this. I didn't mean this. this sounds too harsh. Make it sound friendlier.

This sounds too soft. Make it sound, firm. I actually need them in the night and not during the day, whatever it is. Give it feedback and continue to give feedback until you get what you want. Think about it like this, you ever work with somebody like an me or something, and you tell 'em to do something and they come back and it's like, this isn't what I asked for.

So you give them more feedback and it's like, this isn't what I asked for. And then you start to feel bad. So you stop giving feedback. You start to get annoyed, so you stop giving feedback. You just end up doing it yourself. This is the exact opposite. It is the most receptive with the least amount's attitude.

It has no feelings. You just, you just keep demanding and it keeps giving. Right? It is your best friend who knows everything about everything and Oh, yeah. Also has access to the internet. What more could you want? And so if you use these steps, you give it the context for who it is, set the stage. You give it your context, ask the question, and then you give feedback.

You are going to already be ahead of the game. You are on your way to making your life easier. Let me tell you, this is just level one, so  let me know if you want more episodes about how to utilize AI and how to get the best output, let me know.

This is my jam. But for right now, I don't wanna overwhelm you. So do these steps. The next time you have to look up anything, you have to research anything. You have to send any email, you have to do whatever, and then let me know. Email me hello@drtoyacoaching.com. Send me a dm, because I want to know how this has changed your life.

It is. One of the greatest pleasures when my clients message and was like, oh my God, you saved my life. I can't believe I wasn't using it. That's what I hear the most. I can't believe I wasn't doing this before. You deserve ease, doc. I know you've heard me say it multiple times before, but I will see it again.

I am here 

to make your life easier. 

Right. 

That is why I coach 

Physician moms in the early years of motherhood.

Because we have not taken 

the easy way out in any situation. We chose to become physicians, 

and then we chose to become mothers. There is no easy way.

Now, it is time. You deserve some ease

and a shortcut. You do not have to figure it out on your own. Use the AI.

And it's the same with your life, with medicine, 

with motherhood,

you do not have to

figure it out on your own. 

This is why I do what I do, 

you do not have to struggle 

and push through 

until some later time 

when the kids are older, 

when things are "easier". 

You can do it now. 

You can enjoy motherhood now.

You can advance your career. Now you can start that business. Now. You can go part-time to pursue your passion. Now you can communicate better with your husband. Now you could figure out all of these things on your own. You have already proven you can do hard things, but it will be faster, easier. More enjoyable with the help of a coach and with the help of ai.

So schedule a free coaching session with me. If you are ready to fast, track your way to joy in medicine and in motherhood,  if you are enjoying the podcast, if you are like, oh my gosh, this AI thing saved my life. I'm so glad I listened to this podcast. Then share the episode, then rate it on Apple Podcast, leave a review saying this is the best podcast ever.  Leave a five star rating and share it with another physician mom who.

Needs AI in her life. Who is scared of it, who is just like, there's no way I refuse, I refuse to be a part of it. Share it with her. Because we definitely need to get on board if for the only reason that we deserve the ease that comes with this special gift, right? So Happy Doctor's Day. You are special.

You are the best, and I will see you on the next episode of Stethoscopes and Strollers.