Business of Medicine
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Is there a doctor on the plane? Tips for providing in-flight assistance
Tools in a physician’s in-flight toolbox start with the first-aid kit.
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Starting a podcast
With podcasts, you have a better chance of standing out in a crowded online world.
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Physicians react: Climate change and other social issues
Around half of physicians rated climate change among their five most important issues, according to results of a Medscape survey.
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New Medicare physician fee schedule leaves docs fuming over pay cuts
Physician groups’ initial reactions centered on an across-the-board reduction of 4.4% in the conversion factor.
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Working while sick: Why doctors don’t stay home when ill
Only 2% of respondents said they never come to work unwell, in a Medscape survey.
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Legal and malpractice risks when taking call
Physicians who violate the bylaws may have their privileges restricted or removed, and could be sued for malpractice even if they never treated...
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Would a national provider directory save docs’ time, help patients?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking for comment on its proposal for the first-ever nationwide directory of health care...
From the Journals
IM residents rate cardiology low on work-life balance
Cardiology is perceived as interfering with family life, surveyed internal medicine residents say, at odds with their highest priority: work-life...
From the Journals
Insulin rationing common, ‘surprising’ even among privately insured
Americans with private insurance are more likely to ration insulin than are those with public health insurance and the insulin-treated diabetes...
Opinion
The ‘root cause’ visit
“How did we miss out on that?” “What?” my physician friend replied as we stood in line at the coffee cart. “Root cause. I mean, we invented this...
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Are doctors savers or spenders?
Medscape polled 468 U.S. physicians and 159 living outside of the United States.