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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...

Protect physicians from bureaucracy, not from patients

Lately, there has been considerable discussion about the changing boundaries between physicians and patients. How quickly should doctors respond to portal messages? When does reaso...

Why Physician Groups Are Replacing Voicemail with Medical Phone Answering Service Support

Physicians are experts at providing accurate diagnoses that help save lives. There are also many health initiatives that physicians lead […] Magellan Solutions - Call Center | BPO...

Women physicians die sooner. Hospitals still won’t act.

In nearly every occupation in America, women live longer than men. This is one of the most stable findings in public health, true for teachers, lawyers, engineers, retail workers,...

What the children of physicians carry

Back when I was a senior in college, I wrote a peer recommendation for my pre-med boyfriend’s medical school application. Nearly two decades later, that boyfriend is my husband, th...

Female ER Physicians Have Higher Rates of Patient Admittance Than Male Counterparts, Says New Study

A UCLA-led study of more than 1.5 million emergency room visits found female physicians were more likely to order tests and admit patients without increasing unnecessary hospital s...

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How measuring physician shortages reveals hidden gaps

Physician shortage forecasts influence everything from residency expansion to rural workforce policy. But many of those forecasts begin with a deceptively simple question: How many...

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...

Crossing the Line: Nebraska Orthopedic Surgeon Faces Misconduct Allegations

Patients trust physicians with their lives, hospitals trust them with their reputations, and colleagues trust them to foster a safe, professional workplace.

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...

A broken health care system and the physician shortage

An excerpt from Failure to Treat: How a Broken Healthcare System Puts Patients and Providers at Risk. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed an inexorable decline in the qu...

Physician inventors need more than an issued patent

Physicians are trained to recognize what we know and, perhaps more importantly, what we do not know. We take a set of clinical findings, develop a differential diagnosis, gather mo...

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“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

A physical therapy referral needs more than a signature

One of the reasons I chose to specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) was influenced by Puerto Rico’s distinctive regulations governing physical therapy. At t...

Physician peer review must balance safety and fairness

Medicine is one of the few professions in which a colleague may understand exactly how difficult the journey has been and simultaneously possess enormous influence over whether ano...

The physician as patient nobody wanted to listen to

I did not expect the red-carpet treatment. My illness came on abruptly, without a prodrome and without the courtesy of localizing symptoms, no cough, dysuria, or obvious source of...

The person behind the diagnosis every chart hides

I never considered myself dismissive or noncaring. I entered medicine with a genuine desire to help, to make a difference, to care and to change outcomes. Like so many of my collea...

Family Medicine Shortage: Why Future Doctors Look Elsewhere

MONDAY, Aug. 24, 2026 — Dr. Genaro DeLeon, a resident physician at the Cleveland Clinic, couldn’t decide between pursuing surgery or family medicine. Surgery paid more and offered...

How Rural Background and Training Shape US Physicians’ Practice Locations

A new cross-sectional study is examining one of the most persistent questions in the US health-care system: why some physicians choose to practice in rural communities while others...

As AI advances, a debate grows over the future role of physicians

A new AMA framework assumes a physician remains in the loop as AI advances, while a provocative opinion piece explicitly questions whether physician-AI hybrids are actually the opt...

Who Will Meet America’s Growing Healthcare Needs? The Rising Role of Physician Assistants

Who Will Meet AmericaРІР‚в„ўs Growing Healthcare Needs? The Rising Role of Physician Assistants Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/26/2026 - 14:56 As the need for healthcare...

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