Healthcare Careers

By the very nature of our healthcare industry there always have been - and always will be - differences in care.

Parent guilt just like doctor doubt is a serious force to be reckoned with, but you have to strike a balance between what is best and what is necessary.

Medicare reimbursement could become more problematic the pay cut due to the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula is not averted.

It's time to start thinking about what would happen if a key member of your medical practice were no longer there.

Whether you have a lot of free time or just a few minutes each day, here are ways your skills can benefit those in need.

Due to the current healthcare climate a colleague of mine is moving to the corporate world and it saddens me that the system is forcing out excellent physicians.

If Congress fails to avert the Medicare SGR pay cut, many physicians will shut their doors to new Medicare patients. But things could get even worse.

The best way to optimize your sales price, no matter what the market conditions are like, is to optimize your operations.

I'm going to take a cue from Little House on the Prairie and try to live more simply both at home and at my medical practice.

Employing veterans to help rectify the domestic primary-care provider shortage is a win-win, but more needs to be done.

The qualities associated with an excellent physician are not always those associated with successful business people. Here's how you can strive to be both.

Here are three key items every successful physician recruitment outreach strategy should include.

More physicians are gaining reputations online through online ratings websites. How concerned are you about what others are saying?

My advice to patients is a lot like my approach to yoga - don't go to the edge of your endurance or capability, save something in reserve.

Practice Notes blogger and attorney Martin Merritt provides six reasons physicians are dropping Medicare patients. What reason can you most relate to?

I think sometimes, in trying to achieve work-life balance, we add more stuff to an already packed life in the misguided hope that …everything will fall into place.

Physicians continue to drop Medicare patients and it will continue unless something is done to reinvigorate enthusiasm on the part of providers.

Private practice physicians can only do so much to retain their independence. Policies need to change as well.

Amidst healthcare reform, ACOs, and watching primary care colleagues select employment over independence, I wonder whether solo practice is still for me.

Practice Notes blogger Wayne Lipton recently wrote that patients in concierge practices have more respect for their doctors.

Three healthcare jobs are seeing increased recruitment thanks to a lack of physicians and the Affordable Care Act.

If an ACO comes knocking on the door of your medical practice, here are some pointers to assess your potential new partners.

This video interview with MGMA consultant Rosemarie Nelson is packed with simple ways physicians can better balance patient care and practice management.

We’ve compiled a list of some of the most popular "doctor" songs. Here’s your chance to tell us which is the best of the best.

I know practically nothing about Marissa Meyer, but I support her decision. Who best to know how to juggle home and work than the one doing the juggling?