Richard Payerchin

Recognizing it’s a problem is first step to making changes that help workforce, patients and the bottom line.

Pay is important, but culture is crucial for recruiting and retaining staff.

Provider population not keeping up with general population growth in some parts of the country.

The Physicians Foundation remains committed to supporting primary care physicians and to improving a sometimes toxic work environment in medicine.

Feds to revise questions about COVID-19 effects on jobless rate and will ask about telework.

Pre-pandemic survey examines effects of heart disease, asthma, and more.

A large, complex health care system takes a long time to change with actions from multiple people.

Physician recounts work with patients struggling with opioid addiction, HIV.

Survey examines differences between low-income adults at ages 64 and 66.

Physicians, nurses, other staff facing growing number of threats.

Unsupported claims could lead to license suspensions, revocations.

Finding, providing and paying for the best mental health services for physicians is a complicated topic, but there is an easy way to help.

Programs will add community health workers, nurses in primary care, other specialties, and public health.

The 2022 Physicians Foundation survey found 80% of physicians feel there is stigma attached to physicians seeking mental health care.

HHS Inspector General examines process for getting drugs to patients and to market quickly.

The worst state is more than double the national average for health insurance coverage.

Physician burnout is “very disturbing,” “quite worrisome,” and “a crisis” in U.S. health care, according to three leaders of the Physicians Foundation.

Figures strengthen resolve but don’t offer context for complex issue, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention says.

Health care systems will change when more leaders realize how expensive it is to replace physicians who leave because of poor workplace conditions.

International study examines intertwined effects as problem approaches global crisis.

A conversation on physician well-being

Making electronic health records more user friendly, while adding to physician flexibility and autonomy, are practical solutions that could reduce physician burnout.

Potential $1 million fines are possible for physicians and health care providers who won’t share patient electronic health information.

Primary care physicians get 24 hours a day — but would need at least 26.7 to provide guideline-based care to their patients.

Facilitators dubbed more or less effective based on outcomes in federal heart health initiative.

Physicians have analyzed conditions that contribute to workplace burnout – but corrections have been slow to come.

Texas Medical Association claims arbitration rules give unfair advantage to health insurers.

Gary Price, MD, MBA, president of The Physicians Foundation, reacts to a new Foundation survey finding that 62% of physicians feel some symptoms of job-related burnout.

Analyst uses hyperlocal data to understand current and forecasted physician shortages.

Raising public awareness and developing concrete solutions about workplace burnout and mental health care in the United States.