The expert interviews section of Medical Economics features exclusive video interviews with physicians and other experts on important topics facing physicians, the health care system, and more.
When staffing affects physician office productivity
Staff, productivity, revenue: An interesting correlation.
Who’s competing with physicians for nurses?
Hospitals need to fill their nursing ranks.
Who’s competing with physicians for office workers?
When office or medical staff leave for better pay.
Pay flexibility in smaller practices
Here’s why small practices may adjust pay more quickly than large health systems.
Top Docs in Concierge Medicine
Quick to the middle
Responding to market forces by being dynamic and flexible with staff pay.
It’s a challenge to recruit and retain support staff
Market forces are affecting how physicians can find and keep staff.
From one primary care physician to another: Thank you
A small-town physician offers words of encouragement to his peers.
Physician advice part two: Why it’s so important for docs to be healthy
Self-care is needed for physicians to care for others.
Physician advice part one: Finding ways to stay connected to patients
An experienced doc offers his advice for the physician-patient relationship after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cognitive Assessments: Expanding Brain Health in Primary Care
Writing about medicine and people, the good and the bad
Volume logs life as a small-town physician
Public policy and acknowledging America’s huge health care problem
The United States is a great place to be sick, but needs to grow healthy people to begin with.
The opioid crisis has not gone away
Physicians and everyone should know substance use and addiction can hurt the ones they love.
Small-town medicine is about relationships in the community
Watching patients and the community grow is the heart of the job.
Analyzing social determinants of health in theory and practice
Why health care needs to change to recognize outside factors.
Why Austin, Indiana, is not an isolated case
In poverty, people make choices from options available.
HIV spreads as opioid users share needles
In 2010, infections and hepatitis C foreshadowed another epidemic.
Discovering the opioid epidemic
A new physician is surprised at requests for prescription painkillers.
Introducing Austin, Indiana, with the town physician
A ‘Tale of Two Cities’ off Interstate 65
A message to primary care physicians from The Physicians Foundation
The Physicians Foundation remains committed to supporting primary care physicians and to improving a sometimes toxic work environment in medicine.
Changes to alleviate burnout in medicine have taken time
A large, complex health care system takes a long time to change with actions from multiple people.
Barriers physicians face when seeking help for burnout
Finding, providing and paying for the best mental health services for physicians is a complicated topic, but there is an easy way to help.
Surprise – 20% of physicians feel there is no stigma in seeking mental health care
The 2022 Physicians Foundation survey found 80% of physicians feel there is stigma attached to physicians seeking mental health care.
Denial Management Made Easy
Speaker Kem Tolliver, President and CEO of Medical Revenue Cycle Specialists, LCC, shares tips on how to streamline the billing process and discuss how automation can be a game changer. During this webinar learn how Inovalon helps providers capture and retain more revenue through a centralized approach to billing and claims management.
Burnout is pervasive, unacceptable and expensive
Health care systems will change when more leaders realize how expensive it is to replace physicians who leave because of poor workplace conditions.
Streamlining electronic health records could help with physician burnout
Making electronic health records more user friendly, while adding to physician flexibility and autonomy, are practical solutions that could reduce physician burnout.
Physician burnout and depression: a distinction, and some good news
Physicians have analyzed conditions that contribute to workplace burnout – but corrections have been slow to come.
No surprise, but a disappointment, that 62% of physicians feel some burnout
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.
Joining together to bring attention and change to health care
Raising public awareness and developing concrete solutions about workplace burnout and mental health care in the United States.