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#ILookLikeaSurgeon Highlights Gender & Diversity Issues in Medicine
The courageous social media movement #ILookLikeaSurgeon, led by a female surgery resident from my home state of North Carolina, is shedding light on stereotypes of male and female roles in medicine. According to the American Academy of Medical Colleges (AAMC) […]
Read moreMunchausen Syndrome By Proxy: A Plea for Patience & Objectivity
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) has recently become a hot button topic, as the push for children’s safety has crossed the line into creating intrusive harm. Awareness of wrongful accusations of MSBP has increased ten-fold, thanks to a New York […]
Read moreWhat is the Promise of Personalized Medicine?
The era of personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, has been burgeoning for decades – ever since the advent of the Human Genome Project in 1990, which culminated with the completion of the first human DNA sequence in 2000. […]
Read moreFather’s Day Gift Ideas for Dads in Healthcare
If your dad works in healthcare, he is probably used to taking care of others. Doctors, physician assistants, and nurses all spend their workday focusing on everyone except themselves. Father’s Day is an opportunity to take care of Dad for […]
Read moreManaging Conflict and Tension within a Healthcare Team
Workplace conflicts may be inevitable in all professions imbued with a hierarchical structure. However, the consequences may be especially dire when the healthcare team is rendered dysfunctional due to conflict. In today’s multidisciplinary healthcare systems, the physician is fortunately no […]
Read morePhysician Satisfaction in Employed Settings
The Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2015 was recently published, stating, “Last year saw some modest good news for most physicians.” More than 19,500 physicians, across 25 specialties, responded to Medscape’s compensation survey. The report addresses compensation, hours worked, changes in […]
Read moreHIPAA and Social Media: A Simple Guide
Most people have some sort of social media account. While it is a great medium for sharing family photos, funny videos, or interesting news stories, it has become a big liability for medical employers. A growing consequence is the unintended […]
Read moreNational Nurse’s Week: What do we really want?
It’s National Nurses Week and around the country, thousands of break rooms are proudly displaying cupcakes, banners and balloons celebrating the work of 3.1 million nurses in the United States. National Nurses Day was first celebrated for the first time […]
Read moreACO’s and the Medscape Compensation Report
The times are a changin’, and this year’s Medscape Compensation Report proves it. The annual report crunches data from more than 24,000 physicians from 25 specialties around the country, and provides a snapshot of the state of physicians’ practices in […]
Read morePhysician Compensation: 2015 Medscape Survey Analysis
The results of the ‘The Commonwealth Fund survey’ made headlines in 2014, when the US Healthcare system was declared the most expensive and least effective systems among the 11 industrialized and developed countries of the world (such as Germany, Sweden, […]
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