Opinion

Physicians must confront these difficult conversations

Many physicians are relieved to see 2017 come to an end.

As a physician, you’ve made a career out of improving the well-being of your patients. Make sure you’re setting your practice and yourself up with the tools needed to look after your own financial wellbeing.

Important lessons from physicians and financial advisers who work for them.

EHRs can absorb your valuable time, hurt your bottom line and lead to burnout and a tragically foreshortened career.

Although it is the most fundamental of all things that physicians do, communicating has never been a teaching priority in medical school. The result is that we blame patients for our own deficiencies.

2017 has seen two key advancements for diabetes patients, but affordability remains an issue.

Insulin was invented to be affordable for most everyone, but patients continue to struggle for a key part of treating their diabetes.

Read on to find out how EHRs have been affecting physicians this year.

A look at why more physicians are turning to medical scribes

Primary care may hold the key when it comes to early surveillance and treatment of new HIV infections.

Patients with HIV report having little involvement in their care decisions, but many also report feeling too poorly educated about the options to want the choice.

Read on to find out how uncompensated tasks have been affecting physicians.

Association between the diseases “is complex, not just inverse,” according to researchers.

Physicians can help patients plan and manage holiday temptation so a few days of indulgence doesn’t turn into a new normal in the new year.

One Stanford clinic’s democratic approach to patient care has improved outcomes for the entire team.

Team-based communication and an emphasis on personal resilience have improved one medical system’s employee engagement by more than 20%.

Glucose lowering drugs provide additional cardiovascular benefit to patients with diabetes.

Diabetes and high BMI were responsible for an estimated 800,000 new cases of cancer worldwide in 2012.

A new program developed with the support of CDC aims to streamline vaccine-related functions in EHRs to make administration and reporting easier for clinicians.

There is a new vaccine against shingles, and ACIP has recommended that it replace its predecessor.

Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to deal with payers this year.

While some third-world nations are making great strides, recent reports suggest massive funding efforts are yielding small results in other parts of the world.

Declining numbers of physicians are entering infectious disease care, but patients with HIV are living longer. A new report proposes a different kind of training track.

Despite skepticism from some physician groups, updated blood pressure guidelines are good for patients and physicians.

An innovative telemedicine model could substantially reduce the burden of chronic hepatitis C infection.

Timely treatment with direct-acting antivirals is highly cost-effective in virtually all patients infected with HCV.

In all aspects of healthcare, we must be able to listen to, and keep confidential, anything that a patient shares, in whatever form it comes. By the same token, we must be able to communicate frankly and openly with patients conveying the necessary message.

In the ongoing examination of U.S. healthcare costs, one economist has found the lone trouble spot: physician salaries.