Jillian Bybee, MD
@lifeandpicu.bsky.social
PedsICU Intensivist juggling medicine & life. GME Wellness Director/PedsICU APD. Leadership coach, speaker, advocate for Mental Health and WomenInMedicine.
Writer and podcaster: https://humansleading.substack.com/
https://humansleading.buzzsprout.com/
Writer and podcaster: https://humansleading.substack.com/
https://humansleading.buzzsprout.com/
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The World Won't End if You Do 1% Less
Learn how to start doing less to live more.
humansleading.substack.com
Doing too much?
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Joy is a key ingredient for a satisfying life.
And cultivating it allows us to resist and persist through difficult times.
You can learn how to create more joy in your life in this week’s post.
#PedsICU #MedSky
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And cultivating it allows us to resist and persist through difficult times.
You can learn how to create more joy in your life in this week’s post.
#PedsICU #MedSky
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Joy is Necessary
You can't have a satisfying life without it. Discover how to create more... no burying your head in the sand required.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Joy is a key ingredient for a satisfying life.
And cultivating it allows us to resist and persist through difficult times.
You can learn how to create more joy in your life in this week’s post.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
And cultivating it allows us to resist and persist through difficult times.
You can learn how to create more joy in your life in this week’s post.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Our phones can be helpful tools. But they can also be a barrier between us and our real lives.
This week, I explore my own relationship with my phone and my desire to spend less time on it.
If you’re looking to do the same, the reflection questions I provide can help you get started.
This week, I explore my own relationship with my phone and my desire to spend less time on it.
If you’re looking to do the same, the reflection questions I provide can help you get started.
You Won't Save the World via Your Phone
Reflections on an increasingly screen-filled life
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November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our phones can be helpful tools. But they can also be a barrier between us and our real lives.
This week, I explore my own relationship with my phone and my desire to spend less time on it.
If you’re looking to do the same, the reflection questions I provide can help you get started.
This week, I explore my own relationship with my phone and my desire to spend less time on it.
If you’re looking to do the same, the reflection questions I provide can help you get started.
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
I miss the days of the tweetiatrician. We built so much community under the shared purpose of sharing evidence based child health information. The methods and platforms may have changed but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep going. Follow pediatricians. Share our messages.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjGmB2j/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjGmB2j/
Where are my pediatricians at?! We need to get every single one of us sharing accurate medical information. Even if it just means sharing each other’s content. It’s easy and it helps. The solution to...
TikTok video by Jaime Friedman, MD
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September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I miss the days of the tweetiatrician. We built so much community under the shared purpose of sharing evidence based child health information. The methods and platforms may have changed but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep going. Follow pediatricians. Share our messages.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjGmB2j/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjGmB2j/
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
One of the new ACIP goons is advocating for randomized, placebo controlled trials of the MMR vaccine. This would be like now randomizing seat belts for kids or car seats for infants.
It’s so laughable that people this stupid are in charge of our health.
It’s so laughable that people this stupid are in charge of our health.
September 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One of the new ACIP goons is advocating for randomized, placebo controlled trials of the MMR vaccine. This would be like now randomizing seat belts for kids or car seats for infants.
It’s so laughable that people this stupid are in charge of our health.
It’s so laughable that people this stupid are in charge of our health.
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
By decreasing vaccine access and encouraging vaccine mistrust, they drive down vaccine uptake.
And then point towards low vaccine uptake as a reason to not have the vaccines anymore.
And then point towards low vaccine uptake as a reason to not have the vaccines anymore.
Checking on on ACIP; "at what point should low uptake factor into out decisions" (from one of the new ACIP members working hard to drive that COVID vaccination rate lower. Self-fulfilling prophecy)
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
By decreasing vaccine access and encouraging vaccine mistrust, they drive down vaccine uptake.
And then point towards low vaccine uptake as a reason to not have the vaccines anymore.
And then point towards low vaccine uptake as a reason to not have the vaccines anymore.
What do you need for your wellbeing this Fall?
I’ve learned that knowing your essentials helps you take care of yourself even when times are busy or stressful.
Today, I’m sharing a few tips to help you get started.
#PedsICU #MedSky
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I’ve learned that knowing your essentials helps you take care of yourself even when times are busy or stressful.
Today, I’m sharing a few tips to help you get started.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Protecting Your Energy This Fall
My 5 essential ingredients for wellbeing (including 3 favorite Fall recipes!)
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September 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What do you need for your wellbeing this Fall?
I’ve learned that knowing your essentials helps you take care of yourself even when times are busy or stressful.
Today, I’m sharing a few tips to help you get started.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
I’ve learned that knowing your essentials helps you take care of yourself even when times are busy or stressful.
Today, I’m sharing a few tips to help you get started.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Today I delivered my favorite career talk of the year during the Business of Medicine rotation at Corewell Health West.
It's my favorite because it brings me joy to have the opportunity to encourage the trainees to think broadly about what their careers and lives will look like in the future.
It's my favorite because it brings me joy to have the opportunity to encourage the trainees to think broadly about what their careers and lives will look like in the future.
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today I delivered my favorite career talk of the year during the Business of Medicine rotation at Corewell Health West.
It's my favorite because it brings me joy to have the opportunity to encourage the trainees to think broadly about what their careers and lives will look like in the future.
It's my favorite because it brings me joy to have the opportunity to encourage the trainees to think broadly about what their careers and lives will look like in the future.
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
Having a toolkit won’t save us from hard times, but it will make it a lot easier to navigate them.
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
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Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Build Your Resilience Toolkit: 7 Strategies to Navigate Hard Days
Because we all have hard days
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August 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Having a toolkit won’t save us from hard times, but it will make it a lot easier to navigate them.
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Having a toolkit won’t save us from hard times, but it will make it a lot easier to navigate them.
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Build Your Resilience Toolkit: 7 Strategies to Navigate Hard Days
Because we all have hard days
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Having a toolkit won’t save us from hard times, but it will make it a lot easier to navigate them.
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Learn to build yours with the 7 strategies in this podcast.
#PedsICU #MedSky
open.substack.com/pub/humansle...
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
Doing too much?
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
The World Won't End if You Do 1% Less
Learn how to start doing less to live more.
humansleading.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Doing too much?
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Doing too much?
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
The World Won't End if You Do 1% Less
Learn how to start doing less to live more.
humansleading.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Doing too much?
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Feel like you can’t stop because the world will fall apart?
Try doing just 1% less.
#PedsICU #Womeninmedicine #MedSky
humansleading.substack.com/p/the-world-...
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
Resilience doesn’t mean not being affected by adversity.
It means knowing that there will be times that we need help and giving ourselves permission to seek and accept that help.
No one who experiences adversity is truly unaffected by it.
#PedsICU #MedSky
It means knowing that there will be times that we need help and giving ourselves permission to seek and accept that help.
No one who experiences adversity is truly unaffected by it.
#PedsICU #MedSky
What We Get Wrong About Resilience
How broadening your understanding can help you and your team.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
We know that free food isn’t the solution to physician burnout.
And yet creating intentional spaces where people can connect and feel valued is part of creating a culture of wellbeing.
Happy to have done a little of this for our residents and fellows this morning.
#MedEd #MedSky
And yet creating intentional spaces where people can connect and feel valued is part of creating a culture of wellbeing.
Happy to have done a little of this for our residents and fellows this morning.
#MedEd #MedSky
August 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We know that free food isn’t the solution to physician burnout.
And yet creating intentional spaces where people can connect and feel valued is part of creating a culture of wellbeing.
Happy to have done a little of this for our residents and fellows this morning.
#MedEd #MedSky
And yet creating intentional spaces where people can connect and feel valued is part of creating a culture of wellbeing.
Happy to have done a little of this for our residents and fellows this morning.
#MedEd #MedSky
August 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’m officially “conference mom.”
(Read: old 😂)
If you are a resident at a conference, I will come ask you about your project, cheer you on, and ask if you need a picture to send to your actual parent or support system.
We can all take actions to create a culture of support in medicine.
#MedSky
(Read: old 😂)
If you are a resident at a conference, I will come ask you about your project, cheer you on, and ask if you need a picture to send to your actual parent or support system.
We can all take actions to create a culture of support in medicine.
#MedSky
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’m officially “conference mom.”
(Read: old 😂)
If you are a resident at a conference, I will come ask you about your project, cheer you on, and ask if you need a picture to send to your actual parent or support system.
We can all take actions to create a culture of support in medicine.
#MedSky
(Read: old 😂)
If you are a resident at a conference, I will come ask you about your project, cheer you on, and ask if you need a picture to send to your actual parent or support system.
We can all take actions to create a culture of support in medicine.
#MedSky
Being resilient doesn’t mean not being affected by adversity.
It means that you seek and accept help when you need it.
And it means building organizational resilience by creating a systemic culture that supports people instead of shaming them for being human.
#MedSky #PedsICU #MedEd
It means that you seek and accept help when you need it.
And it means building organizational resilience by creating a systemic culture that supports people instead of shaming them for being human.
#MedSky #PedsICU #MedEd
What We Get Wrong About Resilience
How broadening your understanding can help you and your team.
open.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
As with most things that matter, my career as the Medical Director of Wellness for GME didn’t happen overnight.
In this short ep, I share a story of how confronting toxic culture in medicine pushed me to become a fierce advocate by changing the systems in which we work one small step at a time.
In this short ep, I share a story of how confronting toxic culture in medicine pushed me to become a fierce advocate by changing the systems in which we work one small step at a time.
You Don’t Have to Get Used to It: My Journey to Well-being Leadership
Small steps are the only way to build a career you love.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
As with most things that matter, my career as the Medical Director of Wellness for GME didn’t happen overnight.
In this short ep, I share a story of how confronting toxic culture in medicine pushed me to become a fierce advocate by changing the systems in which we work one small step at a time.
In this short ep, I share a story of how confronting toxic culture in medicine pushed me to become a fierce advocate by changing the systems in which we work one small step at a time.
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
Today at 4pm ET!
We're going live! Join me and @katiecouric.bsky.social on Monday at 4pm EST for a lively conversation on Substack. See you there!
July 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today at 4pm ET!
Reposted by Jillian Bybee, MD
Tip for trainees writing personal statements: we can tell when you've been using ChatGPT.
While AI can be a useful tool for getting started, we want to hear what makes you a human being. We don't want robots.
The same goes for mentors writing recommendation letters.
#MedEd #PedsICU #MedSky
While AI can be a useful tool for getting started, we want to hear what makes you a human being. We don't want robots.
The same goes for mentors writing recommendation letters.
#MedEd #PedsICU #MedSky
July 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Tip for trainees writing personal statements: we can tell when you've been using ChatGPT.
While AI can be a useful tool for getting started, we want to hear what makes you a human being. We don't want robots.
The same goes for mentors writing recommendation letters.
#MedEd #PedsICU #MedSky
While AI can be a useful tool for getting started, we want to hear what makes you a human being. We don't want robots.
The same goes for mentors writing recommendation letters.
#MedEd #PedsICU #MedSky
July 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You don’t have limited access to e-mail when you’re out of office.
You have a hard time setting boundaries when you’re away because the culture teaches us that we need to be available 24/7.
You can learn how to prioritize your time away with the 3 steps I outline below in this week's post.
You have a hard time setting boundaries when you’re away because the culture teaches us that we need to be available 24/7.
You can learn how to prioritize your time away with the 3 steps I outline below in this week's post.
If You Say You're Out of Office, Be Out of Office
3 tips for setting an out-of-office (and boundaries) in order to enjoy your time away
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June 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You don’t have limited access to e-mail when you’re out of office.
You have a hard time setting boundaries when you’re away because the culture teaches us that we need to be available 24/7.
You can learn how to prioritize your time away with the 3 steps I outline below in this week's post.
You have a hard time setting boundaries when you’re away because the culture teaches us that we need to be available 24/7.
You can learn how to prioritize your time away with the 3 steps I outline below in this week's post.
“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now”
I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month
The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month
The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press
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June 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM