Physicians

Why Dying Is Different for Doctors

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Death and Dying, Doctors, Physicians, Dying With Dignity, Palliative Care, Death, End of Life Decisions, Health Care Decisions, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

Because of our exposure to and understanding of how people die, physicians, at least in my experience, tend to deal with death differently than those outside of the profession.

Read Post

Selling Doctors To Other Doctors: How Marketers Influence Referrals To Specialists

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Marketing, Doctors, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Video, Money News

Medical specialists are tearing a page out of a playbook created by drug and medical device companies by hiring marketers to pitch their services to f...

Read Whole Story

Choosing (Medicine) Wisely: Good Answers for Good Questions

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: X-Rays, Healthy Living Health News, Acp, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Intuistics, Consumer Reports, Medical Testing, Internal-Medicine, Health Care Rationing, Dr. David Katz, Clinical Epidemiology, Choosing Wisely, Aarp, Evidence-Based Medicine, Abim, Routine Tests, Gps-Soul, Routine Screening Tests, Routine Medical Tests, Routine Lab Tests, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Make your standard of care better than standard. Be a good boss -- ask good questions, get good answers. By doing so, you can help ensure that you and your doctor are always diligent, and choosing wisely -- together.

Read Post

Why Does it Seem Most Doctors are Not Compassionate?

Quora | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Hospitals, Psychology, Doctors, Physicians, Health Care, Medicine, Healthcare, Compassion, Health and Fitness News
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Lou Davis, Emergency Nurse One Sunday a few years ago, one of my colleagues Dan was dealing with tr...

Read Post

Physicians: Endangered Species

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Physician Income, Medical Advances, Physicians, Physician Training Costs, Number of Physicians, Shortage of Physicians, Student Loans, Health Care, Retiring Doctors, Health Care Reform, Health Care Costs, Healthy Living News
Ronald Ricker

Sadly, in the ongoing, often vitriolic debates about health care for us all, Americans have lost sight of the iconic importance of our physicians and medical scientists -- the foundation of our medical health care system.

Read Post

A New MCAT and a New Focus for Future Doctors

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Standardized Tests, People Skills, Doctors, Physicians, Social Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Medicine, Mcat, College News
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

For a profession focused on caring for people, it's a wonder that so little attention is paid to empathy, compassion, or communication skills in the selection of future doctors.

Read Post

The Doctor Made a Huge Mistake

Amy Parmenter | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Malpractice, Healthcare System, Physicians, Medical Malpractice, Elderly Care, Doctors, Heart Disease, Patient Advocacy, Healthcare, Seniors, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Amy Parmenter

I got my mom back. But, just as easily, I might not have.

Read Post

I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Arrogance, Physician Behavior, Physicians, Patient Care, Difficult Doctors, Medical Doctors, Mindfulness, Doctors, Doctor, Doctors Care, The Doctors, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

I am a physician, and I don't think I am more arrogant than non-physicians. While patients and media frequently accuse us of behaving arrogantly or poorly, I'm not sure these are fair generalizations.

Read Post

6 Things Patients Can Do To Improve Health Care

Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Personal Health, Physicians, Personal Health Care, Health Care Reform, Patient Health, Personal Care, Health Care, Patient Care, Healthy Living News
Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld

While we can all agree that there are "bad apples" in every line of work, the "bad apples" in medicine simply are not the reason that we are in the crisis we find ourselves in.

Read Post

Cannabis and California's Physicians: A New Perspective

Steve Heilig | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: California Medical Association, Medical Marijuana, Drug War, Physicians, Cannabis, Marijuana, Politics News
Steve Heilig

There has long been a "drug war" surrounding marijuana. Our nation's marijuana policy has not served us much better than the failed experiment with alcohol prohibition many decades ago.

Read Post

BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Physicians, Clinics, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Chemical Exposure, Health Insurance, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Louisiana Dept. Of Health and Hospitals, Respirators, Detoxification, Crude Oil, Subra Company, Fishermen, Green News
Susan Buchanan

A multi-million-dollar study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, gauging impacts of the BP spill on cleanup workers, has so far enrolled 5,500 individuals -- mostly from Gulf states.

Read Post

When Is Too Much Information Too Much?

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Physicians, Medical Research, Published Medical Research, Psa Tests, Mindfulness, Medical Studies, Reader's Digest, Medical Testing, Consumer Reports, Health News, Healthy Living News
Helene Pavlov, M.D.

Research should guide decision-making but not be the end all. Physicians need to know how the "research findings" might be applied in a patient's individual circumstance.

Read Post

Half Of Texas Doctors Threaten To Turn Away Medicare Patients: Survey

McClatchy | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Medicare Cuts, Physicians, Mcclatchy, Texas Medical Association, Texas Doctors, Health Post50, Doctors, Medicare, Fifty News

Half of Texas physicians would consider withdrawing from the Medicare program if Congress allows a forthcoming deep cut in reimbursement payments, Tex...

Read Whole Story

The Best Paying Jobs Of The Future

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Software Engineer, Future Economy, Physicians, Nurses, Accountant, Business Consultant, Market Research, Best Paying Jobs, Future Jobs, Future of the American Economy, Business News

24/7 Wall St: If you decided on a new career path today, wouldn’t you like to know which jobs will be in high demand and pay the most once you were ...

Read Whole Story

Should Physicians Be Cool Or Compassionate?

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Healing, Compassion, Health Care, Healing and Compassion, Bedside Manner, Osler, Healthy Living Body, Physicians, Patient-Doctor Relationship, Healthy Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

Compassion means more than "suffering with." It involves entering the mind-space of other persons so completely that one senses what the experience of illness is like for them.

Read Post

Florida Doctors Fight Back Against Gun Lobby Gag Law

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Rick Scott, National Rifle Association, Physicians, Gun Control, Florida, Doctors, Nra, Guns, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

Do you want your doctor to tell you the truth about health risks, based on the best evidence that can be brought to bear? When it comes to the risks of guns in the home, particularly to children, the gun lobby wants to prevent doctors from doing that.

Read Post

What’s The Future Of Primary Care?

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Primary Care Physician, Primary Care Doctor, Physicians, Primary Care, Primary Care Specialty, Doctors, Primary Care Crisis, Health Care, Healthy Living Health News, Home News
Dr. Cindy Haines

Why, exactly, would a medical student choose to pursue a career in primary care? And why would they choose not to?

Read Post

Florida Voter Suppression Bill Toxic for Democracy

Rishi Manchanda | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Rick Scott, Physicians, Civic Engagement, Health, Florida, Doctors, Democracy, Patients, Weird Florida, Health Care, Voting, Politics News
Rishi Manchanda

The Florida legislature just passed House Bill 1355, which many civic participation advocates view as part of a worrisome national trend to suppress v...

Read Post

UC Berkeley Doctor Arrested For Sexual Assault

San Jose Mercury News | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: UC Berkeley, Doctors, Physicians, Sexual Assault, Home News

BERKELEY, Calif.--A former doctor at the University of California, Berkeley has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting patients at a campus...

Read Whole Story

Will Budget Hawks Have the Guts to Reject Doctors' Demands? Probably Not.

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cms, Congress, Physicians, Federal Budget Deficit, John Boehner, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Tea Party, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

Sometime in the next few months we'll get a clear signal about whether Congress is serious about constraining Medicare costs. My guess is that they'll increase payments by tens of billions of dollars.

Read Post

Into the Health Reform Briar Patch?

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Physicians, Obamacare, Hospitals, Individual Mandate, Medicare, Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care Mandates, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

Those who are suing to overturn the mandatory health insurance requirement apparently believe a success will be both a major embarrassment for the president. They may be very, very wrong.

Read Post

Drug Companies Paying Shady Doctors For Endorsements

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Physicians, Lawsuits, Prescription Drugs, Bribes, Doctors, Medications, Payments to Doctors, Medicine, Home News

Pharmaceutical companies are paying doctors with questionable records millions of dollars to endorse their drugs, Propublica reports. According to ...

Read Whole Story

Prevention is the Best Practice

Dr. Paul Grundy | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Physicians, Smarter Ideas, Health Care, Primary Care, Healthy Living News
Dr. Paul Grundy

We call the field of medicine "health" care, but we currently have a system that essentially provides "sick" care. In the U.S., we frequently get "more" care, not necessarily better care than people in other industrial countries.

Read Post

Data on Teachers: Lessons From Health Care

Kati Haycock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Quality, Education, Physicians, Teachers, Education Reform, Health Care, Impact News
Kati Haycock

We all know there are big differences between doctors and teachers, beginning with pay and prestige. But it turns out that there are also many parallels.

Read Post

Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carpets, Kabul, Politics, War, Health Care, Afghanistan, World, Pediatrics, Physicians, Humanitarian Aid, World News
Seema Jilani

I recently assisted in a surgical procedure in Kabul on a young boy. The chief surgeon was an Afghan man. I didn't know how he would respond to a woman as our fierce Asian eyes met over surgical masks.

Read Post