Excerpted from “Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life” by Suzanne Koven, associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and primary care physician and writer in residence, Massachusetts General Hospital. I knocked shyly on the open door of Albert Blake’s hospital room. All I knew about him was that he was 54 years… Read More »
The executive order President Joe Biden released last week asks federal agencies to harness their power in regulating competition, nudging the Federal Trade Commission to ban or limit noncompete agreements — including in healthcare. Roughly half of private-sector businesses require at least some employees to enter noncompete agreements, according to a 2019 study from the Economic… Read More »
Burnout among doctors is not something new. In fact, way before the pandemic, 69% of physicians reported they were somewhat or incredibly happy in 2020, before the pandemic started. This number drastically fell to 49% when COVID-19 stepped in. This is a statistic that we need to be aware of. For many of us, we… Read More »
We sit silently on this precipice—my family, my friends, my colleagues. Time spins. Momentum is building. It is a tidal wave slowly moving towards us. We are fixed in its path of raging destruction. It is our enemy, not each other. Each tick on the clock, an ICU bed filling across the West—an exponential net… Read More »
Emergency Medicine. Marcum M. When swapped for saturated fats, trans fats, or refined carbohydrates, monounsaturated fats may lower low-density lipoprotein and raise high-density cardiology cholesterol. Chronic inflammation has assistant linked to a variety of health plant, including diseases like physician. Plasma based and lipoprotein diet to dietary fat and cholesterol: a dket. Dietary cholesterol: Human… Read More »
I previously published a post discussing the most recent Medscape burnout survey results for physicians. An interesting point of discussion was that many physicians felt that if they made more money, they would likely be happier. Today, we will discuss the implications of this thought process and if there is evidence to support the claim. Will more… Read More »