January 14th 2025
Practical strategies for delivering life-changing news with empathy and expertise.
January 13th 2025
How proactive legal strategies can protect providers and support access to advanced diagnostic testing.
We don’t talk much about women physicians who don’t have kids, either by choice or due to fertility issues.
January 10th 2025
Managing provider data not only improves patient access, it reduces costs.
January 9th 2025
What’s fueling salary increases for primary care physicians? Talent shortages, increased burnout and rising administrative burdens — not greed.
COVID-19 fallout: How will other needed care be provided during the pandemic?
There is no easy answer to this dilemma.
May I have my medical records, please?
New interoperability rules put patients in control of health data and play a key part of broader transparency effort
Making telehealth work for senior patients
Physicians will need telehealth during the coronavirus outbreak, especially senior patients.
Visionary leadership in healthcare: How to leverage board expertise
The multidisciplinary nature of healthcare requires a team approach to effectively navigate risks and opportunities.
Always running late? This simple tip can change a physician's life
The next time you're running late, remember this advice.
Why primary care is in crisis-and how to fix it
Fewer medical students are interested in primary care. Why?
2019 Physician Writing Contest: My unexpected use for postpartum
An honorable mention entry in the 2019 contest.
The deductible reset: How to help patients navigate it
The new year's deductible reset period may offer providers a new opportunity to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship
Dealing with 'deaths of despair': What physicians need to know
Life expectancy has decreased among middle-aged adults due to deaths of despair.
Healthcare trends for 2020
The pace of change is accelerating in ways that we haven’t seen before. Here's some predictions for what’s coming our way.
How nonprofit hospitals get away with the biggest rip off in America
The term “nonprofit” hides what’s really going on.
2019 Physician Writing Contest: Back to basics
An honorable mention in the 2019 contest.
2019 Physician Writing Contest: Caring along life’s journey
An honorable mention in this year's contest.
Corporate-heavy Health IT committee needs voice of independent doctors
2019 Physician Writing Contest: Learning how to listen
This year's third-place finisher.
2019 Physician Writing Contest: The hope of living better
The second-place entry in this year's Physician Writing Contest
2019 Physician Writing Contest Winner: The patient who lowered my shield
The first place winner for the physician writing contest.
Consumers are confused about healthcare: Here’s how physicians can help
Physicians and other providers can improve the situation by ensuring effective patient relations
Income share agreements: A solution to medical school debt?
How this model can create value for medical students
Will new payment models relieve physician burnout?
New reimbursement models can drive investment in primary care-and counter physician burnout
Entertaining patient wait times
How to make patient wait time more tolerable.
Why a physician may be the best choice to lead an ailing organization
Three reasons why physicians are uniquely qualified to lead all types of healthcare organization to success
Inefficient financial services processes are sucking hospitals dry
How can hospitals optimize the administrative arm of the hospital in order to cut costs and improve cash flow?
Why I chose concierge medicine
How concierge medicine helped me provide better care to my patients
Want better outcomes? Improve patient communication
There are communication breakdowns happening throughout the entire continuum of care. Is technology the solution?
HIPAA: At what cost?
Medicine needs to learn from Amazon that privacy has a price
A remedy for burnout: It’s time to listen
Is direct primary care a solution to physician burnout?
Time to retire the "patient consumer"
Treating patients as consumers changes the doctor-patient relationship in ways that could harm care.
EHRs should be a tool, not a task
We must commit to enhancing EHRs to make them more usable for physicians
How genomic insights combat physician burnout
A growing number of organizations are adopting tools to bring the advances of genomic science into the physicians’ workflow, and early evidence shows its helping.