As every young physician reads the dollar figure in their first employment agreement, he or she inevitably thinks the same thing—“this is low.” This thought is immediately followed by the belief that the employer is unlikely to...
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Telephone follow-up after an ED visit is an important strategy for monitoring changes in health...
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The increasing popularity and use of social media in medicine offers great opportunities for...
Read MoreNow that the government shutdown is over, it’s time to focus on the Affordable Care Act. Many have written about website sign-up difficulties including the apparent mother of all the bad ones, healthcare.gov. Here are some...
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Is there a patient who goes through a hospitalization who does not have stories to tell about the...
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By John Green The following sources are cited: The Incidental Economist, Issues in International...
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Faced with declining reimbursement, added expenses from implementing new technologies, and...
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While physicians across all organizations are projected to see median salary increases for 2013,...
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With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act now underway, more attention is being focused...
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“I want you to get me a new doctor,” she told me, a bit of disgust coming out in the sharp tone in...
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OK, I’ll admit it: I had no idea. I thought that the whining and griping by other doctors about...
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Nearly 1,400 physicians who were sued for medical malpractice share their experience in Medscape’s...
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I normally wouldn’t do this but you need to see excerpts from an article in the Wisconsin...
Read MoreBlogging at his site “Adventures in Emergency Medicine,” Dr. Sam Ko says resident work hours should be limited to 40 per week. Via Twitter, I warned him that I would rebut his assertion. Without any data or...
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The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics estimates that $213 billion was spent on avoidable...
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Anesthesiology is one of 21 medical specialties in the United States that is currently...
Read MoreIn a post 2 weeks ago, I discussed why elderly patients don’t get out of bed and walk when hospitalized. You can read it here. I wrote that a major reason that staff does not have time to walk patients is that they are too...
Read MoreToday I received another dues notice from the American Medical Association (AMA). For a mere $420.00 per year, I can become a member. Over 10 years ago, I dropped out of the AMA because it seemed to be run by a bunch of old guys...
Read MoreYou may have missed this when it first appeared. Experts from Harvard and the University of Southern California say assumptions made by some analysts that defensive medicine is not an important facet of the high cost of...
Read MoreA profound look at life in a 4-minute video. The camera shows the inner lives of people in a hospital as they go about their daily lives. Produced by the Cleveland Clinic, we get a peek as to what their story entails—worry,...
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