Social Media Ideas for Physicians

The hidden payment gap crushing independent physicians

The health care system is supposed to put the patient first. Physicians evaluate, diagnose, treat, and manage risk. Hospitals, insurers, administrators, and regulators exist to sup...

AI tools every physician needs

During medical school, physicians spend years mastering anatomy, pathology and surgical technique, yet most of them receive little formal education in finance, investing, taxation...

Physician builders no longer wait on EHR vendors

Recently, I visited Dr. Josh Pepper at his direct primary care (DPC) practice in Marin, California, Marin Family Medicine. Josh’s clinic opened in January 2026, and by summer he ha...

Experienced physicians and patient safety defy spreadsheets

There was a time when becoming a physician meant entering a profession in which your experience was not merely appreciated; it was actively sought after. My father belongs to a gen...

A national hotline could track bias in physician discipline

Becoming a physician is one of the longest professional journeys in America. The path typically requires four years of college, four years of medical school, and three to seven or...

O-1 Visa for Physicians/Clinicians: O-1A Criteria and Evidence

Gastroenterologists Overtake Orthopedic Surgeons as Highest-Paid Physician Recruits, AMN Healthcare Report Finds

Average physician signing bonus jumps 29% to nearly $50,000 as competition for specialists intensifies.

Patients Are Asking AI About Their Health; AimwellBio Wants Verified Physicians to Be Part of the Answer

Aimwell Partners Inc. launches a physician visibility program offering verified professional profiles, nationwide press opportunities, and complimentary AI and search visibility as...

“I’d Testify, But I’m Not Senior Enough” and Other Physician Misconceptions About Expert Witness Roles

Most doctors have it in them to make excellent expert witnesses, but still hesitate due to misconceptions about the work. ... Read more

Physicians Should Stop Thinking of Side Gigs as Selling Out

Originally published at The Prudent Plastic Surgeon Physicians have a strange relationship with money. We spend more than a decade ... Read more

Physician addiction is a disease of silence and shame

An excerpt from Physicians With Lived Experience: How Their Stories Offer Clinical Guidance (APA Publishing, 2025). In an interview that Dr. Grinspoon did with the New York Post in...

Why physician outsourcing is a warning sign for hospitals

History has taught medicine some brutal lessons. Nearly two centuries ago, Ignaz Semmelweis noted a disturbing pattern in the maternity wards of Vienna, Austria. Women cared for by...

The physician disposability nobody wants to name

I am writing this from the slow, disciplined landscape of recovery (one repaired shoulder, one sling, and one unrepairable truth): Medicine did not suddenly become fragile when AI...

America Is Running Out of Doctors

By EMANUEL SARKEES Most people assume that when they need a doctor, a doctor will be available. That assumption is getting harder to hold onto. Right now, more than 83 million Amer...

A plan to save primary care that puts doctors in charge

PCPs don’t have to suffer silently under employers that deprofessionalize them and treat them as the low people on the totem pole of health care. They can embark on a mission to sa...

Doctors, don’t quit your day jobs

Some noise has been made lately about the imminent redundancy of the job of physician, thanks to the ascendancy of artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology. The latest volle...

Physicians and the death penalty: There is no humane way

“Do No Harm” is perhaps the most famous medical maxim. But reciting it is one thing; living by it is another. Sometimes, the question of “harm” is up for debate. Throughout history...

Physician mentorship helps doctors endure the system

I love being a doctor. I do not enjoy many aspects of practicing medicine in the U.S. health care system. In the struggle to balance these truths, mentorship from several extraordi...

The physician retention problem nobody wants to touch

I keenly remember the day one of our partners said he was quitting as soon as possible (no new job lined up, no plan). His dad had died just days before, and he said he simply didn...

What physician mothers miss while caring for everyone else

It’s been a great summer, but we’re also looking forward to getting back into the school routine. This was my first summer off since my second year of medical school. For almost tw...

How ADHD in physicians collides with constant evaluation

Many individuals drawn to a career in medicine possess a driven, high-functioning intellect that often masks concurrent manifestations of neurodevelopmental idiosyncrasies, most no...

The physician independent contractor path is a third option

For much of my medical training, I assumed there were two basic career paths for physicians. You could become an employed physician, trading some autonomy for stability and institu...

Report: High Drug Costs Are Creating Hidden Burden for Physicians

When drug prices are too high for patients, physicians take on additional workload to find solutions. A newly released 2026 Physician Drug Cost Survey by RazorMetrics examined how...

The Sunday Best (09/13/2026)

Retain connects law firms with board-certified physician expert witnesses across 25+ specialties for medical malpractice, injury, and litigation cases. You ... Read more