Linda Girgis, MD

The pandemic has shown that medical misinformation can spread as quickly as a deadly disease.

Follow these tips to avoid spreading false medical information.

Giving bad news is not fun, but as a doctor, it is something you'll have to do from time to time. Here are some tips on how to do it.

Prior authorizations are a pain for physicians. Here are a few things you can do to improve your odds of winning.

Though traditional fee-for-service reimbursement is tied to volume, quality patient care can’t be increased by simply adding more appointments. 

EHR interoperability is a great idea in theory, but the reality leaves much to be desired.

Six tips that can help physicians collect on services not covered by third parties.

The days of the traditional practice are greatly diminished.

We all want to help alleviate our patients’ pain. However, the word pain should not produce a knee-jerk reaction of prescribing pain medication.

Some deny that it is really an issue while others acknowledge it but don’t think it’s a problem. But it is a real issue that affects everyone. 

While we strive to heal patients and rid them of their diseases, those very efforts can be very traumatizing to patients. As doctors, we should take steps to minimize their ordeal.

Doctors may not agree with MACRA, however, refusing to comply will result in financial penalties. The best course of action is to get educated.

Physicians must take action and try to get paid accurately for their services.

Doctors are human and face all the same illnesses, injuries, and disasters that everyone else does. 

Residency can be a fearful time in a doctor’s career, but it doesn’t have to be unbearable. Here are some tips for recent medical school graduates as they begin their training.

Seven ways to adapt to new regulations coming from D.C. while still managing to treat patients.

When big business runs medicine, physicians become more disconnected from their care and the physicians overseeing their well-being.

Many doctors say they would never recommend a medical career to their children. Burnout is a serious problem.

One hundred years from the worst flu pandemic ever, we're still failing to fight it off.

The solution to solving the opioid crisis is much more complicated than simply adding new therapies. It needs a multi-leveled approach.

Here are nine things you can be doing to ensure that your practice is putting its patients first.

Payers have made it so doctors cannot go with their instincts when caring for a patient and that's a shame.

Doctors would love to treat disease and care for patients with the latest technology and medication. Too bad innovation is thwarted in healthcare.

There are a lot of public health issues that need addressing - can the new Surgeon General tackle them in an effective manner?

Some patients don't want to hear it, they just want their unreasonable request accepted. Here's how to say no.

The latest attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare are no better than the health law itself.

Both doctors and patients will benefit when exam room conversations go beyond the usual discourse.

Doctors aren't the problem, unusable systems are the problem, says this doctor. She airs her EHR grievances.

Competing interests between EHR vendors is one of the many reasons we may never see true interoperability.

Allowing medical students to gain experience at your practice could be beneficial to all parties involved.