Tag Archives: physicians

We all know how hard it is to recruit a physician these days. No matter the specialty, finding a compatible physician with the right skills ...

How stressful is medical training? So bad that in a class encouraging medical students to express emotion by drawing comics, nearly half depicted their supervisors ...

Say you’re a rural Midwestern farmer in bed recovering from a major illness at your local hospital. It’s time for nurse’s check in, but there’s ...

The good news is that we are living longer.  The bad news is that the longer we live, the more likely it is that we ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday that physicians will soon receive reimbursement for providing end-of-life care advice to their patients. The ...

Patients may not be the only sick people in the room when they go to see the doctor. According to a study published in JAMA ...

The tanning industry was not very happy when Obamacare imposed a new 10 percent tax on salon revenues. However, that tax, combined with increased awareness ...

By Richard Amerling, M.D. As I predicted back in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the administration in King v. Burwell. So I was not surprised ...

Medical Marijuana is legal in 23 states and Washington, D.C.  Many of the remaining states have proposals on the books for legalization.  Marijuana is a ...

By Martha Swartz Most physicians probably assume that they have the right to speak freely with their patients, at least within the constraints imposed by ...