Commentary
Managing Your Practice
Hiring the right employees
Many of the personnel questions I receive concern the dreaded “marginal employee” – a person who has never done anything truly heinous to merit...
Commentary
Memories, flashbacks, and PTSD in NYC
A lot of PTSD remains undiagnosed – partly because clinicians tend to look for the disorder only after major traumatic events, Dr. Robert T....
Commentary
Treatment in prison systems might lead to drop in overdose deaths
People leveraged into treatment to maintain professional licenses, including physicians, have rates of sobriety of 90% or greater after 5 years,...
Best Practices
The 10 Commandments of Internships
As another year of residency begins, we invite all interns to read and consider adopting these principles.
Med Tech Report
The 21st Century Cures Act: Tearing down fortresses to put patients first
“A fortress not only protects those inside of it, but it also enslaves them to work.”
– Anthony T. Hincks
As...
The Optimized Doctor
Improving self-confidence
When I meet with our young doctors, I try to provide feedback not only on their medical acumen but also on their confidence to deploy that...
Article
An 89-year-old woman presented with an ulceration overlying a cardiac pacemaker
An 89-year-old, well-appearing woman presented with a 1-week history of tenderness and ulceration overlying a cardiac pacemaker.
Managing Your Practice
Sexual harassment: Prevention and defense
Medical offices are far from immune from harassment, of course, and the problem is not limited to staff interactions.
Opinion
Get patients vaccinated: Avoid unwelcome international travel souvenirs
A trip to a travel medicine physician can protect patients from returning from international travel with an unwelcome infection.
Commentary
Medical community confronts physician depression, suicide
MDedge recently hosted a...
Commentary
Analysis: Why Alexa’s bedside manner is bad for health care
It remains an open question whether virtual medicine will prove a valuable, convenient adjunct to health care. Or, instead, will it become a way...