Rebekah Bernard, MD

If you’re feeling burned out, don’t let third-party payer demands drive you out of medicine.

Focusing on details like hiring, supplying and marketing for your practice are key.

Opening a new medical practice can be intimidating. Opening as direct care does remove some of the hassle.

One of the biggest benefits of the direct care model is its economic simplicity.

The economics of direct care are straightforward. Here are the three variables to track.

The first step is establishing a vision for your practice.

Part one of a series covering what physicians need to know about direct care.

For 15 years, I unquestioningly followed my organization’s standard process for patient flow. Not anymore.

Are you willing to try something different?

At our first in-person county medical society meeting in nearly two years, I found a balm for my jaded thinking.

How physicians can use the new year to rediscover meaning in their careers.

As we approach the holidays, we often find ourselves feeling overwhelmed and overcommitted. ‘Tis the season to start setting boundaries.

The Facebook outage is a reminder of how crucial it is for physicians and health care facilities to protect themselves in such an event.

COVID-19 vaccine refusal feels more personal, somehow, as if patients are not only rejecting my medical advice, but rejecting me.

There are steps doctors can take to improve our mental well-being as we continue to navigate the post-pandemic world.

Steps to getting back to normalcy

It’s time for health policy experts—and the public—to wake up and question whether replacing physicians with nonphysician practitioners is healthy for the state of our nation.

There are steps doctors can take to improve our mental well-being as we continue to navigate the post-pandemic world.

What can we do to prevent devastating outcomes?

We talked to young physicians about the stress of the match.

Many of the most common challenges in medicine can be addressed through alternative practice models.

Physicians discuss their COVID-19 vaccine choices, and how to convince patients to become vaccinated.

As dismal as the last year has been, the pandemic has offered a few tiny silver linings

Here’s the good news: this is one type of gender pay difference that is easy to fix

If certification process is reformed in response to physician concerns, I’ll be the first to get in line to recertify

Why won’t they make physicians’ jobs easier?

Analyze what advantages and resources we have as physicians to help mitigate racial disparities.

You're not the only one who's feeling a bit stressed.

After speaking with multiple physician experts, I now have the tools to begin to identify and overcome my own implicit biases—and so can you.