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Rx for resilience: Five prescriptions for physician burnout
“Every person should have a toolkit of the things that bring them out of the psychological and physical distress that dysregulates their nervous...
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Why don’t doctors feel like heroes anymore?
“None of us are invincible,” and it’s dangerous to forget that “the people behind the symbols are also human.”
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Compensation is key to fixing primary care shortage
Substantial disparities between what primary care physicians earn relative to specialists can weigh into medical students’ decisions about which...
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Patient contact time vs. admin: Is your contract fair?
“It’s important for employers to recognize that seeing patients isn’t the only thing a doctor does and there’s a lot of work in addition to face-...
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Massive databases unleash discovery, but not so much in the U.S.
Vast medical databases have connected dots where smaller randomized trials could not. But the United States has a long way to go.
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Employment vs. private practice: Who’s happier?
“It used to be that fewer hospitals offered employment, so private practice was the way to go. Now, there are fewer privates because hospitals and...
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Prior authorization software: Saves time but hurdles remain
The automation works, but the software can be costly and may not work for all practices.
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Illicit steroids: If MDs don’t ask, patients won’t tell
“They felt discriminated against, they did not feel comfortable working with their physicians, and they felt that the doctors did not know what...
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From scrubs to screens: Growing your patient base with social media
“What we can do for society at large is to provide our input into issues, add informed opinions where there’s controversy, and address...
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What’s right and wrong for doctors on social media
“You have to hold yourself back when posting. Doing things like dancing in the OR are out of whack with the profession.”
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Pediatrician with SCD gives her young patients hope
A Nigerian-American hematologist draws on her experience living with sickle cell disease to encourage child patients and advise colleagues.