Opinion

An analogy to help lawyer politicians understand healthcare and its financing

The patients’ needs cannot always win-and often don’t.

Try this. 

Physicians are thinking outside the box early in their careers.

When it comes to cybersecurity, 2018 was a banner year for the healthcare industry for a myriad of reasons, both good and bad.

Showing empathy improves patient satisfaction, but not every doctor is naturally good at expressing feelings to patients. 

While there are many similarities between the two models, the differences turn direct care from a curiosity or sideshow to a potentially huge player in the American healthcare marketplace.

The solution to the lack of EHR interoperability 

One medical group’s path to freedom lights the way for others.

The free market would provide abundant care. 

Countless physician groups are grappling with how best to introduce and leverage genomics in their practices.

While Continuing Medical Education (CME) and journals have kept me afloat, it is essential to find new creative ways to keep pace with the previous academic rigor of residency.

We seem tired, unhealthy, and worse off than some of the patients asking us for help. Despite what you may think, complex and costly care didn’t zap our energy. The fatigue we feel comes from a lack of balance and connection in our own life.

As physicians, we have given up control and lost the ability to do the job we were trained to do. Our focus has turned instead to serving needs that have become more demanding than those of our patients.

The EHR, like many new technologies, has capacity to improve the health and safety of our patients. So what can we do to make this happen?

If doctors are savvy about it, they have options at their disposal to get away from full-time clinical work.

Here's what you should do the next time you experience a patient in a strong emotional state.

Several strategies facilitated by technology are helping provide access to hidden capacity in our current health system.

Women physicians often detect a gender pay gap in medicine, but negotiating for equal pay is not always successful.

Change is difficult for healthcare professionals but especially difficult in a for-profit healthcare system setting-especially those systems caring for high-risk populations.

An American solution focusing on individuality and conserving resources  can save the Medicare program.

While often thought of as an affliction that primarily affects men, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in America.

While story-based tech innovation doesn’t always pan out, it sometimes does-and it usually changes everything.

Jonathan Kaplan, MD, MPH, reflects on what he learned from buying a plastic surgery practice. 

Special interests keep patients in the dark, right where hospitals want them.