Medical Economics September 2021

Navigating nutrition conversations with patients

Many physicians intuitively suspect that the key to successful chronic disease management and prevention is to encourage sustained behavior change in their patients.

With virtual care on the rise, physicians need to understand the risks when caring for patients.

Are you earning a significant income but still living paycheck to paycheck? This is a common experience for many younger physicians.

How physicians can prepare themselves

A new study suggests that reducing burnout requires an organization-level response — creating medical practice cultures that value qualities such as teamwork, open communications and process improvement.

Commercial real estate often occupies the second highest expense on most health care providers’ profit and loss statements.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a near-overnight revolution in many parts of health care, and nowhere was this seen more than in the waiting room. Now that things have changed, what does the future hold?

Burnout is real and so is the terrible mental health toll it inflicts on physicians, healthcare professionals of all types and their families. That’s why learning to identify it and developing strategies to regain your resiliency are so important.

Market outlooks aplenty make optimistic predictions about the near-term future of autonomous vehicles, but should you invest in them?

Health care organizations still struggle with how to address one of medicine’s biggest problems.

How concerned should investors be about inflation?

Four out of five physicians say they are burned out right now.