Opinion

Through storytelling we can create empathy and earn trust.

Launching in 2020, the Physician Support Line is available to medical students, resident/ fellows, attending physicians, and retired physicians.

Regulators have better things to do than come after small practices, right? Wrong.

One week in the Dominican Republic gave me a renewed perspective on practicing medicine.

Physicians and employers are tired of waiting for the government to fix health care. So they came together and fixed it themselves.

Patients from under-resourced populations lack the preventive health screenings and early interventions that can reduce the risk of illness or disability.

Primary care doctors are community health leaders – and we need more of them in more communities.

Let’s take stock on the real issue of why we don’t have enough physicians.

Investing in customer experience strategies can improve customer satisfaction, raise employee retention and save companies money in the long term. Private practices that do not maintain digital prowess will have unhappy patients and unhappy employees.

Although it may be hard for us to admit, physicians face the same types of mental health conditions as our patients.

The right communication strategy can keep you from losing a patient.

Understanding the cuts to physician reimbursement

Hint: It’s an in-person, supply-and-demand thing.

Restoring the trusted patient-physician relationship.

Technology can support processes for relief in a tight labor market.

There are interesting differences in the ways patients of varying ethnicities and races engage with technology.

The ‘business of medicine’ sounds like a contradiction of terms.

Physicians Foundation president offers resources, evidence-based actions for leaders.

In this podcast, we spoke with Lisa Larkin, MD, on the need to focus on women's health in medicine.

We all have a role to play.

Healthcare professionals and policy makers must act, as we go from the crisis phase of the pandemic, to managing an ongoing public health risk.

There's one sector of the economy where prices are growing much more slowly: health care.

As any competent clinician will tell you, having data is only one part of the equation. A clinician must also be able to intervene efficiently and effectively.

Has health care price transparency actually arrived?

End-of-life care discussions with patients are critical for physicians of any specialty, but especially primary care.

A strategic blueprint for fixing primary care.

We simply must provide better preparation and support for those who care for others.

I have been left to wonder, how does being a caregiver affect the health of the caregiver and what how does our system dysfunction play into that effect?

Much has changed since the beginning of the pandemic.