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Infographic: Is your compensation rising as fast as your peers?
Did doctors’ salaries continue their zesty postpandemic rise in 2022?
Feature
Five chronic mistakes that can sabotage your medical practice
Although she says there are no hard and fast rules on how to run a thriving medical group, there are common mistakes that physicians often don’t...
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Physicians may retire en masse soon. What does that mean for medicine?
“It’s a significant concern in terms of whether we have an adequate supply of physicians in the U.S. to meet our nation’s medical care needs....
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Physician compensation continues to climb amid postpandemic change
Gender-based pay disparity among primary care physicians shrank, and the number of physicians who declined to take new Medicare patients rose.
Opinion
OSHA revisited
Standards most applicable to medical offices are those dealing with personal protective equipment, bloodborne pathogens, hazard communication, and...
Shrink Rap News
Prior authorizations: Time to rebel?
Physicians’ ability to help their patients remains compromised and administrative tasks consume valuable time.
Perspectives
Health care in America: Let that tapeworm grow
Might it still be possible to do well while doing good?
Latest News
New Medicare rule streamlines prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans
About 13% of prior authorization requests that are denied by Medicare Advantage plans actually met Medicare coverage rules.
Hard Talk
The sacrifice of orthodoxy: Maintaining collegiality in psychiatry
If even enlightened institutions fail at a nonjudgmental approach toward their colleagues, what hope is there for the rest of us clinicians?
Feature
Luxe vacations, private jets: Medical device maker, surgeon to pay $46 million penalty in kickback scheme
“In recent years, we are seeing a trend toward holding physicians and others on the receiving end of the inducement accountable as well,”...
From the Journals
Tooth loss and diabetes together hasten mental decline
The findings of a new study show “the importance of improving access to dental health care and integrating primary dental and medical care,”...