49. Charting with Ease: A Mindful Approach to Finishing Notes, EHR Documentation, and Inbox Overwhelm for Physicians

If charting is taking over your evenings, weekends, and mental space, this episode is for you. Dr. Jessie Mahoney — board-certified pediatrician, physician coach, and former physician wellness leader at Kaiser Permanente — shares a mindful, sustainable approach to clinical documentation that doesn't require working faster, working later, or another productivity hack. Most charting advice for doctors focuses on efficiency tools, templates, dot phrases, AI scribes, and time-blocking. Those things help. But they don't address the real reason so many physicians chart late into the night: the nervous system state we are in when we sit down to chart. In this episode, you'll learn: Why charting feels harder than it should — even when you know what to write The mindset shift that makes notes flow instead of stalling How perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-explaining quietly inflate every chart A presence-based practice you can use between patients to reset Why "charting with ease" is possible without sacrificing clinical quality This conversation is for women physicians, primary care doctors, pediatricians, family medicine, internal medicine, hospitalists, and any clinician who is tired of pajama-time charting and wants a sustainable, human approach to EHR documentation. 🎧 New here? Healing Medicine (formerly the Mindful Healers Podcast) is hosted by Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang. We help physicians heal burnout, reclaim presence, and build sustainable careers in medicine.