Healthcare Careers

Going into solo practice has had its rewards and challenges

Difficult decision aid; reasons to love mobile health; comic health reform; and more.

When does natural career frustration and fatigue for physicians transition into full-fledged burnout?

A new survey published in Health Affairs asked thousands of physicians how they felt about telling lies and stretching the truth when treating patients.

In the balance between sick patients and sickness at home, physicians are trained to put work first.

Neurosurgeon Margaret Wacker on being forced to run a code on her own mother.

Having your soul mate at the office is great, but beware of bringing personal issues into your practice.

Are you competing with Dr. Google? Here's some advice on how to deal.

Here are some simple tips and rules for physicians to use your limited partnership in a legal and defensible way.

Google+ is a great online way for physicians to connect and communicate with their patients and peers, according to physician and social media expert Russell Faust.

Physicians Practice recently asked physicians whether they believe positive incentives for patients really work.

I was recently part of a continuing improvement project that examined the best way to give breast biopsy results which were positive for cancer to patients.

Perhaps Congress hopes some sort of solution to the SGR will unexpectedly land on its doorstep. And perhaps it finally has - in the form of unspent war funds.

Practice Notes blogger Aubrey Westgate recently highlighted a report which outlines four possible scenarios for the future of medical practice.

The convenience of practicing medicine in the same town you live is nice, but I’d like a little more separation between my life as a doctor and my personal life.

There’s no education like experience, says Julie Schopps, a North Carolina-based pediatrician, about what medical school should teach.

Driving skills: learning to navigate the road to a successful medical career

Digesting feedback from patients; alternative treatments gaining momentum, the color of diabetes; and more.

When we asked you to send us your favorite doctor movie suggestions, you bombarded us with a flurry of Tweets and Facebook posts. Here is the tally.

Practice Notes blogger and family physician J. Scott Litton, Jr., recently wrote that many of his colleagues ask him why he stays in private practice.

Regardless of our unending enthusiasm for new projects and new opportunities, we remain finite in our time and energy and focus and resources.

Unfortunately, when life happens, it’s too easy to do the now stuff and not the important stuff.

What intrigues me about physician burnout is its similarity to depression.

I get worn down by some of my patients who want me to use my medical training and my license to act as their agent, doing what they are convinced is the right thing.

2011 was a good year, a year where I set and reached numerous goals. And, I guess I did it all without any formal resolutions to speak of.