Career Concerns

5 Steps to Maintaining an Online Reputation

Nov 4, 2016

The author of this article is Manish Kumar Chauhan, a digital marketing manager at...

Unmatched Graduate: “Med Schools to Blame”

Oct 17, 2016

The following was submitted as a series of comments on my Physician’s Weekly post about Missouri’s...

Do political beliefs predict PCP decisions?

Oct 12, 2016

It is necessary to understand how doctors’ own political worldviews may impact their actions in...

Looking for Work/Life Balance

Oct 7, 2016

From our content partners at Physicians Practice When you love your job, it can be easy for...

Disclosing Your Own Errors: How, When & Why

Oct 6, 2016

So, do you have to tell a patient if you make an error in their care and, if so, under what...

Strategies for Physician Succession & Retirement

Sep 6, 2016

Due to the busy nature of many medical practices, planning for future events like physician...

Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal

Jul 28, 2016

By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...

Should Doctors and Nurses Wear Scrubs in Public?

Jul 7, 2016

Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there...

Avoid Patient Abandonment: 8 Tips for Termination

Jun 7, 2016

The law governing medical abandonment is predicated on the more dependent status of the patient in...

Do Doctors Make the Wrong Diagnosis in Their Own Investment Strategies?

May 27, 2016

Medicine is one of the highest-paying professions, but whether doctors are able to manage their...

Should Doctors Wear White Coats? The Debate Continues

May 11, 2016

An infectious disease fellow at the Harvard Medical School is convinced that white coats are...

Turning Our Residents into Minions

Jan 26, 2016

As doctors, we can all remember the attending doctors who struck fear in our hearts or the senior...

Population Health Management: Taking Control of Your Entire Patient Community

Dec 1, 2015

Today much of the spotlight in the healthcare community is on managing people with chronic diseases. That makes sense, since many of these individuals are among the 20% of patients who account for about 80% of healthcare costs...

Will Medicare’s Published Physician Quality Data Push Your Patients Away?

Oct 21, 2015

By: Theresa Hush, CEO & Co-Founder, ICLOPS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t be the only group scrutinizing your quality and cost data anymore. As the next step toward value-based healthcare, Medicare...

Doctor Curmudgeon® : “I Flunked the ICD-10 Test”

Oct 2, 2015

By Doctor Curmudgeon® How could this be? I took this stupid test that I had to take for...

Daytime Procedures Following Night Shift Work

Sep 21, 2015

Adverse outcomes of elective daytime surgery appear to be similar, regardless of whether or not...

Costs of ABIM Maintenance of Certification

Sep 21, 2015

Researchers in California suggest that the 2015 version of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) maintenance-of-certification (MOC) program will generate considerable costs, mostly due to demands on physician time. The...