Aug 18, 2026 · 15 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Chart Less Live more, Dr. Junaid Niazi shares highlights from session one of Leave Your Work at Work. He tells the story of the Friday night that made him rethink charting, explains…
Junaid NiaziHost
All of the administrative burdens, the endless notes, the overflowing inbox, all the prescription refills, all the forms and other requests we get.
We're good at doing work, but this has all become a relentless drain on our energy that steals our focus and our joy away even from our patients.
And at least for me, that was really breeding a deep resentment towards the system.
And we know from data that this invisible cost is a major contributor to burnout.
So we know that 62% of physicians cite charting as the number one contributor to their burnout, not patient deaths, not the difficult conversations we have to have, but all the bureaucratic junk that we have to do.
that this is widespread and in order to start addressing it, we need to really understand why we fall into this pattern.
All of the administrative burdens, the endless notes, the overflowing inbox, all the prescription refills, all the forms and other requests we get.
We're good at doing work, but this has all become a relentless drain on our energy that steals our focus and our joy away even from our patients.
And at least for me, that was really breeding a deep resentment towards the system.
And we know from data that this invisible cost is a major contributor to burnout.
So we know that 62% of physicians cite charting as the number one contributor to their burnout, not patient deaths, not the difficult conversations we have to have, but all the bureaucratic junk that we have to do.
that this is widespread and in order to start addressing it, we need to really understand why we fall into this pattern.
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