Work/Life Balance

Planning for retirement can be tricky, and it’s definitely something you want to get right. Check out these potential pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Happy but worried, American physicians are sorting through the many changes their profession is seeing.

One of the thorniest coding questions is: Can a physician bill for family meetings when the patient is not present? If so, who gets the bill ?

Divorce is usually experienced as a personal, familial, and social loss. Afterward, each person needs to recover without permanent negative consequences from their losses, grieve, learn, and go on to better futures. Parallel issues occur in medical partnership divorce: the breaking of legal, professional, and social bonds in a partnership.

One of the activities during a recent session on work-life balance was to use the Steven Covey grid that breaks down tasks on your to-do list into one of four categories: urgent/important, not urgent/important, urgent/not important, and not urgent/not important.

I think the modern workplace requires a sensitivity to both mothers and fathers and the very admirable roles they wish to play in their children's lives. However, how to maintain professionalism while acknowledging the personal can be a tricky balance.

The truth is that no matter where we are along the life path, we all struggle. I have come to the realization that women who finally appear to achieve some semblance of balance just happen to come across this great knowledge and ability around the time their children are grown.

We are considering implementing a Diabetes Prevention Program in our clinic. Based on clinical research demonstrating reduced progression from pre-diabetes to diabetes among participants in this group visit model, we thought this would be both useful and beneficial to our population. In the limited survey of patient interest so far, the response has not been as positive as we anticipated.

A couple of years ago, there was a survey of medical residents (or was it surgical residents?), 17 percent of whom admitted to laughing at or making fun of patients behind their backs. The other 83 percent are liars.

We are looking for physician writers for our September Physician Writer Search.

I recently took an online quiz to assess my vulnerability to stress. I was anxious to identify those areas that I needed to improve in order to lower my cortisol-induced stress haze.

The workforce is becoming much more diverse.

Many practices use midlevel providers to care for patients with routine complaints. But it’s important to understand their legal scope of practice and necessary level of supervision.

We know that things are tough out there, but letting yourself get dejected does a disservice to you and your patients. Here are our tips for unwinding and re-energizing.

Robert E. Kramer had run out of excuses for not taking his own advice to be physicially fit. So he took up running.

Gastroenterologist Robert E. Kramer on his uphill battle to stay fit for the long run.

Forget herbal tea and bubble baths - a physician’s stress requires a more aggressive treatment. Here’s how to dissect the causes of your stress and utilize effective strategies for finding solutions.

Our 2009 Physician Compensation Survey reveals general dissatisfaction - and wide divisions between specialists and primary care docs. Get all the details and advice on ways to earn what you deserve, despite the downward trend.

Dealing with constant call is the bane of many small physician groups. But with the right planning, even solo physicians can share call just like their big-practice peers. Here’s how.

Just who is the modern American physician? It’s a question that pop culture has done a lousy job answering. We decided it was time to shatter the myths. The result is our most revealing survey ever.

By now you’ve heard all the assumptions that people make about doctors. You’re a bunch of wealthy, country-club Republicans driving Beemers and living near golf courses. Or are you?

There are real challenges that face women who choose to be doctors. Many of them center on issues of respect and achieving work-life balance.