Healthcare Careers

Exit interviews tell you why good people are leaving – after they've left. Stay interviews help understand an employee's concerns while she is still on the job.

After contemplating a career that is seeing diminished autonomy, I've selected the date I'll retire from private practice medicine.

In our 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, we asked physicians from around the country how - and how much - they're being paid. Here's what we learned.

Here's the full data for the Physicians Practice 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, based on more than 1,300 respondents.

Most physicians want to explore new payment and delivery models, but SGR-related uncertainty is holding many back, one survey finds.

As a physician you must apply the same techniques to management of your personal finances that you would in evaluating and caring for a patient.

profiles on doctor rating sites are boring, blank, or automatically filled out. Here’s how to make yours stand out and provide great value for patients.

Psychiatrist Daniel B. Block lays out his first term as president of the United States of Utopia.

Ken Hertz of the MGMA Healthcare Consulting Group discusses the various options and opportunities for small medical practices to thrive in the future.

Be aware that if a patient approaches you regarding any type of adverse event, it’s important to seek legal counsel before choosing any course of action.

Describing his life of accomplishment, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises setting distant goals and resolving to achieve them.

Spending time with colleagues and friends from my past and my present causes me to ponder the various ways people honor their own work-life balance.

A semester of study in Edinburgh, Scotland, helped this physician to learn that spirituality is a step away from empathy.

Whether you work for a huge medical conglomerate or a small private clinic, you may not have much say regarding what you wear to do your job. You do, however, have full control over how you wear it.

Some don't understand why practices don't let patients switch their physicians, but to me, there's no real benefit to patients and detriment to doctors.

This podcast provides physicians key tips for how to disclose and apologize to patients for medical errors.

Accountable care organizations are the latest magic solution offered by the federal government. Just don’t pull back the curtain!

As medical practices begin participating in value-based reimbursement initiatives, physician compensation plans must change. Here’s how.

Though there's little physicians can do about declining reimbursements, some of you are finding other ways to boost revenue.

Timeliness ties together all of our aspects of providing great customer service for patients.

Enough is enough regarding the various pressures bearing down on primary-care physicians, says neurosurgeon Ben Carson of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Unless primary-care physicians can organize and affect change, private practice is doomed, says neurosurgeon Ben Carson of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Before making any big changes at your medical practice, neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises you consult two important stakeholders: your patients and your staff.

Consultant Kenneth Hekman unveils four tools for building trust between physicians and hospitals, helping them work more cohesively.

In healthcare, size matters. That's always been true, but several factors are combining in many markets to accelerate the pace of provider group consolidation.

Physician burnout rates are high and may increase if practices don’t step up their burnout prevention efforts.

On top of tending to patient concerns, staff issues, and the daily ins and outs of medical practice, I'm now tasked with property management. Sigh.

Noteworthy items from Physicians Practice

Physicians have long appeared in pop music, but which doctor songs do doctors like best? We asked. You told.

It hasn't been the easiest road to get to where I am today as a physician assistant, but things have definitely evolved for the better for our profession.