Business of Medicine
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ACP maps two potential paths to universal health care
The college offers detailed prescriptions for a single-payer system and a publicly financed option within a private insurance system.
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Medscape survey points to generational differences in physician burnout
Pulmonology specialists reported a burnout rate of 41%.
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Alan Alda, Scripps Research join forces to improve science communication
LA JOLLA, CALIF. – “Curiosity is the key to staying alive,” the iconic actor said. “That would bring us to a point of more people understanding...
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Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?
A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less...
Managing Your Practice
Seasonality
Seasonality is yet another of those basic business concepts that most physicians have never heard of.
Opinion
The power and promise of person-generated health data – part 1
Health-related data from personal computing devices such as wearables and smartphones could sharpen diagnosis and treatment.
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Your colleague appears depressed. Now what?
Experts share tips on how to react when fellow physicians appear depressed or suicidal.
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Breaking through a ‘cloud of silence’
“When you look after a doctor, you have to be a little suspicious that they may be covering up their suicidality,” said Dr. Michael F. Myers.
From the Journals
Expedited review programs not shortening drug development
While it may be hard to understand the impact of the many expedited review programs introduced at the FDA, there is still room for improvement in...
Hitting a Nerve
Standards for health claims in advertisements need to go up
“Unproven treatments are just that – unproven – and shouldn’t be marketed as effective ones,” says Dr. Allan M. Block.
Latest News
Big practices outpace small ones in Medicare pay bonuses
Most physician practices earned a Medicare performance pay raise, but the raises are relatively small.