Physicians Practice Staff

From residency to retirement, your career has a lot of chapters to its story. Each year, we give you the tips and tools you need to help manage the day-to-day occurrences at your practice and enhance your own personal career goals. Here are our top 10 stories on career issues this year, according to our readers.

Everyone has an opinion and nowhere is that more evident than Practice Notes, our section where your peers and our experts team up to give you advice, news, and other information from the frontlines. From inside the ER to the halls of Washington, D.C., we bring you news and commentary to make you think and sometimes make you laugh. Here are our top 10 stories on career issues this year, according to our readers.

Happy patients make for a happy practice, but getting everybody on the same page can be challenging. From basic customer service to avoiding HIPAA violations, patient interaction and relations are a big part of your everyday work. Here are our top 10 patient relations stories for 2010.

From HIPAA to STARK laws, legal issues continue to challenge and sometimes bewilder physicians' practices nationwide. While focusing on medicine, no doubt a few legal matters crossed your mind this year as patients came in and out of your office.

In 2010, healthcare reform became a reality and social media use boomed in practices nationwide. But decades-long issues on how to keep staff focused and happy continue to be at the forefront of your mind. Here are our top 10 stories on staffing you found of interest this year.

Have you managed to achieve that coveted work-life balance? We want to hear about it. For this month’s Physician Writer Search, we are calling for essays about finding balance.

Trying to decide which state to practice in? Our guide to state-level conditions affecting physicians’ wallets will help you choose wisely.

It’s an election year. And healthcare reform is on everyone’s mind. Are we finally on the cusp of systemic change? If so, what might we be changing to, and when? Here’s our examination of healthcare’s biggest problems - and suggested fixes from the top thinkers on reform, from all sides of the political spectrum. Plus: What do the presidential candidates have to say? We put Barack Obama and John McCain under the lens.