Careers

Annual financial cost is more than $1 trillion.

Achieving credentialing efficiency requires practices to automate, centralize, and ensure visibility into their credentialing data.

Medical networks and smaller practices alike are facing spiraling inflation costs and staffing shortfalls due to waves of COVID cases that are impacting physicians, staff, and management.

Having a relationship with a good financial planner brings a “best of” team of advisors to help you achieve your life goals.

The perils of giving POA to the wrong person and how to avoid that mistake.

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

Findings emphasize importance of care in terms used to describe patients.

Whether you are pitching an investment opportunity or need to get a point across to a patient quickly, an effective elevator speech is a must.

Researchers suggest thinking in terms of “pitfalls” would improve process.

This trend presents an enormous challenge for traditional practices.

A large number of healthcare workers have left the medical field — leaders need to focus on caring for their staff.

Medical Economics asked our audience what they considered the major challenges facing physicians and practices in 2022.

An employee appreciation program is a great place to start.

There are ways to mitigate stress by managing its symptoms. But there are also ways to lessen stress by preventing some of it in the first place.

What's the best way to manage personnel issues with a problem employee?

Do no harm, even though your patient might.

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

If you get this wrong, your New Year's resolutions will be useless.

Nearly 25% of physicians and 40% of nurses say they may leave their jobs due to stress and burnout, study finds,

Retirement account tips for soon-to-be-retired physicians.

A different way to think about burnout and how it impacts physicians.

Health systems aren’t sharing financial gains from buying independent practices

Pandemic’s impact could worsen gender divide in income and career prospects, study finds.

A new study on the gender pay gap in medicine examined earnings data from more than 80,000 doctors.

One lesson worth considering.

Defining the goals of the mentoring relationship can be useful to clarify expectations.

Getting things fixed means going beyond blaming people for what went wrong.

In response to great need for primary care, we have been purposefully redesigning and changing it for a decade now. Have we made any progress?