Ken Karpay

Branding is a lot more than just creating a new logo or Web site. It’s a process that you can use to define the essence of your practice.

With the future of healthcare at stake, presidential candidates must hear from you.

Michael Moore, the auteur provocateur, has invented a new genre of film: enter-rage – entertainment intended to outrage its audience.

Elias Sanchez, a 40-something general practitioner, became a doctor the hard way.

Sometimes what you say is stronger than any treatment or medications you may prescribe.

Another health plan grows; physicians’ leverage shrinks

Remember why you’re in business: to provide service to your patients.

Corporate America wants action on exploding costs.

Texas physicians worked hard to improve the state’s practice climate. Will you follow their example?

American healthcare wasn’t always as efficient and effective as the market-based system we have in 2037.

In search of a long-term solution to Medicare's troubles.

The biggest problem in healthcare? It’s not what you think.

Is America really facing a physician shortage?

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, an OB/GYN, takes on the Senate leadership.

More scrutiny than ever is being placed on the relationships between drug companies and physicians, especially when it comes to big pharma's largesse. Is it fair?

Our intrepid columnist reveals an e-mail communication between the former president and his presidential-aspirant wife.

President Bush is running out of time. Lame-duck status awaits him after November's midterm elections, giving him a year - at most - to pass his healthcare agenda. Here are some policy predictions.

Whatever your view of physician-assisted suicide, all doctors should be grateful for the Supreme Court's ruling that regulating medical practice should remain in the business of the states.

Could employer-subsidized health care be nearing its end? Maybe. Here's why that would be a good thing.

Healthcare is in crisis. Americans are in denial. And politicians are running scared. This must be a job for ... an independent commission.

Will Medicare payments to physicians be Hurricane Katrina's next victim?

A proposed hiatus on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising promises to put prescribing control back in your hands - for now.

You asked and we delivered - a new look, added features, and more ways to access Physicians Practice.

Plenty of practices, particularly small ones, find the proposition of government-mandated EHRs too daunting without a little help from the folks in Washington, D.C.

The role of physicians in our society is so important and special that government should usually defer to their professional judgment.

Are you ready to see a physician in the Oval Office?

Non-physicians are encroaching on physician domain

Should physicians be permitted to assist a terminally ill patient commit suicide?

Are pay-for-performance plans a Trojan horse?

An imaginative look forward