A family physician was sanctioned by her state’s Board of Medicine for prescribing an antibiotic over the telephone in 2012. The incident occurred while the doctor was working for a telemedicine company. At that time,...
Read More
According to current estimates, the clinical use of prescription opioids nearly doubled between...
Read More
According to published research and anecdotal evidence, the aging surgeon remains a problem...
Read More
Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey....
Read More
There is nothing more horrifying in the world than a parent watching their child get sick and die....
Read More
It’s time to catch up with America’s most notorious neurosurgeon, Dr. Christopher...
Read More
US News & World Report released its 2015 list of the nation’s best hospitals, assessing...
Read More
Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey....
Read More
A Kentucky appeals court recently ruled that a surgeon was not responsible for a burn caused by an...
Read More
The patient was an elderly priest who had been awake all night vomiting. He was too sick to come...
Read More
A friend on Facebook recently forwarded a news article and a link to a physician blog about the...
Read More
Walking the hospital corridors, many of the comments I overhear patients and others speaking about...
Read More
The big health system that owns the hospital where I do much of my elective scheduled surgery has...
Read More
Many have written about who is making money in healthcare. Sure doctors do very well, but not as...
Read More
A recent article published in Forbes announces the best and worst states for doctors to work, released by WalletHub. Based on 12 metrics, including earning potential, compensation, hospitals per capita, insured population rate,...
Read More
Since entering medical school, I wished to be a pediatrician. There was nothing more noble in my...
Read More
There was a time, during my training and early in my career when the trauma surgeon was the...
Read More
My friend Nick, the ER doctor, called me the other day to tell me that one of my patients had died...
Read More
Studies show that attrition from general surgery programs is high, even with the introduction of...
Read More
