For the first time, primary care physicians (PCPs)–family physicians, general internists, and pediatricians—surpassed specialists in hospital revenue generated, according to a new survey by Merritt Hawkins. This may give PCPs a...
Read MoreA medical student who thinks he wants a career in academic surgery asks, “You were deep into academic medicine and walked away from chairman, program director, etc. Why?” [Background: For over 23 years, I was a full-time...
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Nearly 22,000 physicians across 25 specialty areas participated in Medscape’s third physician...
Read MoreTears rolled down my face as I came across an article written 2 years ago. A veteran pediatric nurse took her own life several months after administering a fatal overdose of an electrolyte to an infant. After investigations and...
Read MoreAnother paper on the subject of unnecessary preoperative laboratory testing appeared not long ago. A group from the University of Texas Medical Branch looked at more than 73,000 elective hernia repairs in the National Surgical...
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It is 3 am, and you are the only man breathing in the room. After 8 hours of listening, feeling,...
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Private practice anesthesiology training appears to be preferred over academic rotations by...
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Read MoreMental illness appears to be an important comorbidity for physicians who complete a suicide, according to findings from a data review. After assessing postmortem toxicology data, researchers observed low rates of medication...
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Atraumatic headache is one of the most common complaints in EDs, but only a small subset of...
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) unveiled a new model to measure...
Read MoreNew York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), which runs 11 hospitals in four of the five boroughs of New York, is negotiating a new deal with the union representing some 3,300 salaried physicians. The corporation...
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Studies have shown that using surgical simulators to improve skills in the operating room (OR) can...
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Perceptions of fatigue appear to have improved following the implementation of the 2003...
Read MoreBurnout appears to be more common among physicians than other working class adults in the United States, according to survey results. Among physicians, 37.9% had symptoms of burnout and 40.2% were dissatisfied with work-life...
Read MoreOver the last few years, medical specialty boards have begun to compel physicians to maintain board certification by a number of means. This is an extension of recertification requirements that have been in existence since the...
Read MoreA recent survey published in Health Affairs found that 20% of nearly 2,000 physician respondents said that “they had not fully disclosed mistakes to patients for fear of being sued” in the past year. When I first heard about...
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Medscape’s 2012 Ethics Report surveyed over 24,000 US physicians across 25 specialties about their...
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A recent article in a major newspaper asked why physicians still wear white coats. The theme...
Read MoreIt happened again. I was talking to a particularly sick patient recently who related another bad experience with a specialist. “He came in and started spouting that he was busy saving someone’s life in the ER, and then he didn’t...
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