October 2nd 2023
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
How Spousal Fatigue Can Be a Physician's Wake-Up Call
May 3rd 2011I don’t always feel the strain of my decisions to travel or to add extra obligations to my already very full schedule. However, when I look across the breakfast table at my spouse and see that he has a hollow-eyed zombie stare and a three-day growth of stubble on his face, I can recognize how my lack of work-life balance equals his fatigue and burnout.
A Physician's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 25th 2011More and more patients are using complementary and alternative methodologies to supplement their healthcare, so it's time for docs to learn more about this growing field. Here's what you need to know about CAM and the role it can play in your practice and patient care.
Prioritizing the Work-Life Balance
January 11th 2011I'm hopeful that the big first step I've made to improve my own work-life balance is being made in the right direction – that I'm not trading one set of overwhelming professional demands for a new, different flavor of the same degree of overwhelming professional demands. It appears, at least one week into it, to be a change for the better.
Best of 2010: Top Career Stories of the Year
December 29th 2010From 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.
Best of 2010: Top Blog Entries of the Year
December 28th 2010Everyone 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.
I'm in a Standards Frame of Mind
October 26th 2010Most organizations do not provide incentives to standardize data management tasks in a way that takes advantage of existing data sources, avoids duplicating data elements, and organizes data in ways that facilitate exchange with other facilities and organizations.
Data Standardization: Short-term Decisions Become Long-term Decisions
October 18th 2010The first step toward standardization is to develop the belief that data is community property, not personal property. This step is hampered when people zealously believe that their approach to the data is the correct one and everyone else should convert to their religion.