April 29th 2025
New ACP position paper outlines how unions, collective bargaining and protests could help doctors improve health care access and quality for patients.
April 23rd 2025
Discover how trust impacts your medical practice's success and learn to address foundational issues for lasting solutions in this insightful podcast episode.
April 10th 2025
Growth doesn't just depend on what you're doing — it also depends on what you're not seeing.
April 9th 2025
Data for 2023 show decrease from 2021, but doctors still experience more burnout than other workers, survey finds.
April 4th 2025
Strategies to reduce physician attrition were discussed in a session at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 in New Orleans.
Financial Beat
Corporations, Privacy, Wealth, Car Theft, Travel
Taxes, Travel, Cars, Mutual Funds
Online Prescribing: How one doctor got caught
An Arizona physician who approved drug orders for an Internet pharmacy believed he was providing patients with "a good service." The state medical board disagreed.
Your Voices
On socialized medicine and travel insurance, On rude patients, On boys, monkeys, and simpler days, On relationships
Can you speak your mind and keep your job?
The tales of two St. Louis doctors illustrate why you can't take freedom of speech for granted when you're somebody's employee.
Learning to heal, one patient at a time
Treating migrant workers, and forced to improvise in primitive conditions, this second-year resident learned that delivering care is more about trust than expediency.
Do airfares really cost less online?
To find the answer, our author experimented. Here&s what she learned.
Navigating on vacation: New tools for plotting the best routes
For travel without tripping up, few things are as indispensable as a map.
So many travel guides...which ones to buy?
With a mountain of choices facing you, selecting an ideal reference for your vacation can be daunting. Here are some best bets.
Retirement, Investment Scams, Mutual Funds, Restaurants, Travel
Leaving practice, but not the profession
You're probably making careful plans for financial security in retirement. But what about the rest of your life?
Stocks; Online Buying; Credit Cards; Travel
Knowing who you are and what you want
Much of your success rides not on technical skill but on the behavioral and cultural fit between you and your work. Here's how to get it right.
Can you find happiness where you are?
That's the million-dollar question. Here's how your colleagues who were tempted to quit found ways to ease the pressures.
Letters to the Editors
letters to the editors
Air Travel, Education, Autos
Where you go to get away from it all
The typical physician spends more than $6,700 a year on vacations, and the world is his oyster, according to our survey.
Your Nest Egg, Mutual Funds, Air Travel, Taxes
Re-engineering your practice: Do patients love you, but hate your phones?
Confusing menus, canned ads, irksome music, assurances that "your call is important." And waits that border on eternity. Is this any way to greet patients?
Plan your next vacation on the Internet
Discount airfares, hotel rooms, rental cars, and cruises?-as well as a gold mine of sightseeing, restaurant, and other information on your travel destination-?are now a few mouse-clicks away.
Reality Check: Which physicians are heading for the exits?
A national survey recently said that nearly half of doctors age 50 and older are planning to retire or cut back their activity in the next three years. What's going on out there?
The Internet; Mutual Funds; Travel Tidbits; Gadgets; Giving; Cars; Real Estate.
A managed care sting
A flat fish administers a unique brand of justice.
Travel; Stocks; Insurance; Banking, Mutual Funds
Why I'll never travel incognito
Some of the author's most treasured experiences occurred after strangers learned what he does for a living.
Telephones; Retirement; Taxes; Travel Tidbits; Stocks; Mutual Funds
Read this before you drive in Europe
The rules of the road--and for renting a car--are quite different overseas, this doctor has learned.