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The Future of Healthcare Revealed
It's 2025. Do you know what your profession looks like? Advances in care delivery and technology are taking root now that could significantly change the way care is delivered. Some of healthcare's innovative thinkers and practitioners give us their predictions for the future.

 

Top 10 Reasons to Be Happy You're a Doctor
We know it's tough out there. So tough, in fact, that you might be thinking that being a doctor is not one of the world's coolest things to be. But it is — really. Check out our reasons why.

 

Are Medical Associations Worth Joining?
Some physicians think membership in professional associations is the best way to affect change in professional standards and state/federal policy. Others think most associations are bloated bureaucracies that don't earn the dues they collect. Maybe they are both right.

 

Rethinking Retirement
You thought your retirement plan was secure. Your portfolio was on track. You may have even retired already. Then Wall Street tanked. Now the good news: there are lots of options for working physicians. Here's your un-retirement primer.


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Using Social Networking as a Marketing Tool
Today doctors are competing for patients in a radically changed marketplace. One of the most important emerging technologies in that space is... More »
Labeling Crayons
Why do I do these things? Honestly, the reason why is that it is the path of least resistance. I don’t want my kids to be singled out in school for... More »
‘What I Didn’t Learn in Residency’
Pediatrician Sandy L. Chung on getting schooled in the business of medicine during her first year of practice. More »
The Part-time Puzzle
Embracing part-time and work-at-home schedules to help fit the right employee pieces into place. More »
Closing the Bank of Mom and Dad
Get your adult children’s hands out of your wallet. More »
AMA Escapes Florida Secession, But Message Sent
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2010 Tech Survey: Do You Have an Interactive Web Site?
Sara Michael , September 1, 2010

Chances are good you finally have a Web site for your practice. That’s assuming you’re among the majority of physicians — 65 percent, according to our latest Technology Survey. But is your Web site much more than a page or two listing your practice location and contact information? Probably not. And should it be more? Certainly.

The Ghost War
Gerald O'Malley, DO , September 1, 2010

As I looked out on my audience of uniformed physicians and nurses, the stories of destroyed lives and war ran through my mind and I thought, “Does anybody besides the military remember that we are fighting two wars?”