Melissa Young, MD

One doctor commiserates on the fact that drugs can be incredibly expensive, forcing her patients to choose between medications and paying rent.

What happens when you are subpoenaed as a witness when you are a solo practice? A lost day is tough to swallow.

Given that a majority of practices use digital health records, a simple power outage can have grave consequences.

This MD misses the day when the decisions in care were made by her - the doctor - and the patients. Today, the insurance company has a say.

Everyone is at least a little stressed during the holidays. Physicians are no exception to the rule.

One doctor is finding success in a seemingly rare place in healthcare: As someone who became a solo doc. She explains how in this blog.

This doctor’s patient has all but lost her short-term memory. Unfortunately, the doctor seems to be the only one who sees it.

What is the right amount of time off to give medical practice staff? Is there such a thing as being too generous?

Being a working parent means that, unfortunately, my kids and I both have to miss things that would enrich us both. How do others do it?

We continue to strive to provide good patient care, but there are only so many hours in a day, and patient tears won't make those hours multiply.

A series of symptoms has left me, a physician, experiencing a series of frustrations as a patient.

Physicians with different personalities; who are too similar; and with varying workloads are just three reasons partnerships don't work out.

Would I like to be friendly with all the referring docs? Sure. But I won't compromise patient care for the sake of camaraderie.

It's hard treating individual patients, complicated treating families, and extremely difficult when families want to be "anonymously" involved.

With payer complexities so burdensome, I can see why some physicians forgo health plans altogether.

In theory, prioritizing patients was great. In practice, however, it ran into three obstacles, namely patients, my staff, and referring physicians.

Medical supply companies need to stop cold calling patients offering them medical equipment without a physician's order, and trying to trick busy doctors.

It is my medical practice's fifth anniversary. Here are eight things I've learned about myself and running a business.

In order to help patients with diabetes who need my services most, I've implemented some pre-screening efforts to help prioritize our patient panel.

Unless a member of the medical practice team is intimately involved in the cash flow process, they probably don't know what is affordable for the practice.

There is a fine line between being an educated patient advocate, and being a know-it-all family member who is in the medical field.

Usually, an employee leaving is bittersweet. But one recent departure was just bitter given the employee's behavior leading up to and following her resignation.

Someone tell me when a physician's relationship with a patient starts and how far does the physician's responsibility go until the patient receives care.

While the effect of the reform law isn't big for me, I'm seeing patients more aware - and not necessarily happy - about the cost associated with their care.

If we hope to reduce Medicare spending, how about we ask physicians for important strategies vs. just ensuring expensive equipment is used properly.

Getting patients to understand hospital privileges - and what I can do for them when admitted - is often a difficult discussion.

Sometimes insurance companies get between patients and their physicians; especially this time of year when health plans make changes.

Pulling strings, asking for professional courtesy, whatever you want to call it, it can put physicians in a very awkward position.

As a physician practicing where I live, I often interact with patients outside the office. Shouldn't I, and others, get compensated for that time?

A recent interaction involving a patient's mother makes me wonder why we can't dismiss family members and if there's a lawsuit on my horizon.