Healthcare Careers

As a physician, I know the solution to physiologically impossible tasks doesn't lie in a prescription bottle. I'm having a hard time getting that message across to patients, however.

Physicians don't often acknowledge the positives that push us into unfavorable work-life balance - a larger salary, another publication for your resume, one more set of letters to add to your signature line.

I am a woman and the expectations my family, my husband, and the larger society have of me are different. Not better, not worse, just different.

A new survey points to some interesting stress-related findings for physicians of different ages and experience levels. Do they match up to what you experience?

With the mushrooming litigation climate, and the advent of the Internet, patients are now bombarded with copious information about their care, and in particular their medications.

Juggling motherhood and private practice makes preparation key.

How stressed are you compared to your physician colleagues?

Many PAs do very well in this ACO care delivery model because of their unique relationship with physicians, staff, and patients and coordination of care responsibilities.

The effort to stop physicians from doing too much medical testing is ramping up. What do you think?

Family provides a lesson in work-life balance and being happy with the choices you make in your roles at home and at your practice.

In the coming years, physicians might find themselves expanding their daily medical practice to further include elements of public health.

While I think we all can agree that there is room for reforming and tweaking medical education …I do not agree that slicing off a year of residency training is a good idea.

The “business” side of medicine is becoming a hot topic in healthcare today. How many physicians are prepared?

I’m still a doctor, which has never been and will never be a straight 9-to-5 job. Demands, like patients, are unpredictable and often non-negotiable.

Tending to the patient’s health in partnership with their fiscal health is the training ground for the inevitable shift from fee-based services to hybrid forms of reimbursement.

Making a big leap forward in your career without looking back as a physician is scary, but take a tip from Gonzo the Great.

Contemplating the membership model? Here are some of the key things to consider.

Whether you know it or not, you have an online brand as a physician. Now is the time to take five minutes and ensure the right information is on the Internet.

Going into solo practice has had its rewards and challenges

Difficult decision aid; reasons to love mobile health; comic health reform; and more.

When does natural career frustration and fatigue for physicians transition into full-fledged burnout?

A new survey published in Health Affairs asked thousands of physicians how they felt about telling lies and stretching the truth when treating patients.

In the balance between sick patients and sickness at home, physicians are trained to put work first.

Neurosurgeon Margaret Wacker on being forced to run a code on her own mother.

Having your soul mate at the office is great, but beware of bringing personal issues into your practice.

Are you competing with Dr. Google? Here's some advice on how to deal.

Here are some simple tips and rules for physicians to use your limited partnership in a legal and defensible way.

Google+ is a great online way for physicians to connect and communicate with their patients and peers, according to physician and social media expert Russell Faust.

Physicians Practice recently asked physicians whether they believe positive incentives for patients really work.

I was recently part of a continuing improvement project that examined the best way to give breast biopsy results which were positive for cancer to patients.