Duty Hour Regulations: Perceptions of Surgical Residents
In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) released its first...
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Career Concerns
The Modern Surgery Department Chairmen
At hospitals throughout the country, surgery department chairmen have an important leadership role...
Read MoreSearching for Drugs and Crossing Ethical Lines
Back in September, I blogged about a case of a man in Tennessee who was sedated, intubated, and placed on a ventilator without his consent so that an emergency physician could perform a rectal exam looking for drugs. The court...
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A Focus on Diagnostic Errors in Malpractice Claims
Studies have shown that about 5% of autopsies in hospitals in the United States reveal lethal...
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Should My Small or Solo Practice Join a Larger Physician Group?
Over the past several years, mid-sized and large practices have become more of the norm. More...
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If You’re Going to Criticize, Get Your Facts Straight
I just found out about an article that appeared in Forbes online 7 months ago. It said that a...
Read MoreNegotiating a Hospital/Physician Employment Agreement
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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Using Social Media in Oncology
The increasing popularity and use of social media in medicine offers great opportunities for...
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Taking Aim at Physician Impairment
When a critical event occurs in professions other than medicine, detailed investigations are...
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Career Plans Among Internal Medicine Residents
General internists are expected to play a pivotal role in providing healthcare as the population...
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Avoiding Pitfalls in Physician Employment Contracts
Faced with declining reimbursement, added expenses from implementing new technologies, and...
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Physician Salary Outlook for 2014
While physicians across all organizations are projected to see median salary increases for 2013,...
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Top 10 Specialties Sued: 2013 Malpractice Report
Nearly 1,400 physicians who were sued for medical malpractice share their experience in Medscape’s...
Read MoreShould Resident Work Hours Be Capped?
Blogging 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...
Read MoreChoosing a Medical Specialty & Balancing Life
The following was posted anonymously as a comment on a blog I wrote about the difficulty one has in choosing a medical specialty. I was so taken with it that I wanted to give it more exposure. [Note: The comment contained a few...
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ASCO 2013: Burnout Among Oncologists
The Particulars: Many studies have explored burnout among oncologists practicing in the United...
Read MoreMost Docs Practice Defensive Medicine
You 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 MoreDo BSN Nurses Provide Better Care?
A paper entitled “An increase in the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees is linked to lower rates of postsurgery mortality” appeared in Health Affairs in March and generated quite a lot of buzz on the...
Read MoreCleveland Clinic: “If We Could See Inside Others’ Hearts”
A 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,...
Read MoreIs the Impending Physician Shortage Real?
It’s crunch time for radiologists. The New York Times reported that an osteopathic radiology residency in the Bronx was abruptly terminated (the decision was later reversed for this year), casting its 12 residents adrift....
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