Opinion

Hint: It’s an in-person, supply-and-demand thing.

Restoring the trusted patient-physician relationship.

Technology can support processes for relief in a tight labor market.

There are interesting differences in the ways patients of varying ethnicities and races engage with technology.

The ‘business of medicine’ sounds like a contradiction of terms.

Physicians Foundation president offers resources, evidence-based actions for leaders.

In this podcast, we spoke with Lisa Larkin, MD, on the need to focus on women's health in medicine.

We all have a role to play.

Healthcare professionals and policy makers must act, as we go from the crisis phase of the pandemic, to managing an ongoing public health risk.

There's one sector of the economy where prices are growing much more slowly: health care.

As any competent clinician will tell you, having data is only one part of the equation. A clinician must also be able to intervene efficiently and effectively.

Has health care price transparency actually arrived?

End-of-life care discussions with patients are critical for physicians of any specialty, but especially primary care.

A strategic blueprint for fixing primary care.

We simply must provide better preparation and support for those who care for others.

I have been left to wonder, how does being a caregiver affect the health of the caregiver and what how does our system dysfunction play into that effect?

Much has changed since the beginning of the pandemic.

The pandemic underscored the incredible power of vaccination.

We cannot continue to ignore the problem of physician mental distress.

Some research shows the previous guideline may have led to the under-treatment of patients with chronic pain.

Even as we begin to envision a post-pandemic future, continuing backlogs and unsustainable workarounds and rising international turmoil supply fresh evidence that supply-chain fragility is untenable.

It is time to take stock of where we have been and where we are going.

The pandemic’s profound impact on the industry has only heightened with staffing shortages and health care legislation complexities.

Contracts between hospitals and providers create price discrimination and harm consumers

But doctors need more funding and payment options to be effective

An exclusive excerpt from the new book “Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink."

Here’s to 2022 being the year that we begin to make significant strides in improving the US health care system.

Medical billing is complex and time-consuming. Does it have to be?

When I read about the plight of primary care doctors and their widespread dissatisfaction with their profession, I remember Dr. William Vroom.