Practice Management
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Step therapy: Inside the fight against insurance companies and fail-first medicine
Doctors and nurses are leading the movement against insurance requirements that force patients to try medications other than the ones prescribed....
News
Senate confirms Murthy as Surgeon General
He is not new to this role.
Med Tech Report
Change is hard: Lessons from an EHR conversion
There are sure to be bumps along the way.
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2021 match sets records: Who matched and who didn’t?
Of the 38,106 total positions offered, 36,179 were filled, representing a 2.6% increase over 2020.
Commentary
A return of holism? It never left osteopathic medicine
I enjoyed Dr. Jonas’s article, “A new model of care to return holism to family medicine” (J Fam Pract. 2020;69:493-498).
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Let’s apply the lessons from the AIDS crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic
Looking back on the AIDS epidemic should teach us to prioritize attending to the mental health of sufferers and caregivers and depoliticizing...
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How to make resident mental health care stigma free
Opt-out programs offer a counterbalance to many negative tendencies in residency, said Dr. Lisa Meeks.
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JAMA podcast on racism in medicine faces backlash
The editor of JAMA and the head of the AMA have joined others in criticizing the episode.
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Docs become dog groomers and warehouse workers after COVID-19 work loss
Some doctors are questioning whether they should be in medicine in the first place.
Commentary
We need to apply the evidence to nonphysician practice
Studies show that nonphysician practitioners order more labs and radiographic tests and prescribe more medications— including antibiotics—than...
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Fired for good judgment a sign of physicians’ lost respect
The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy...