Volunteering: The benefits and risks for physicians
Many physicians enjoy giving back to their communities by lending their medical expertise through volunteering. While the benefits of giving back are clear, keep in mind that there are risks as well....
View ArticleManage the complexity of practicing medicine
Physicians have more to do than ever before—and that’s even before seeing patients. While there are no easy answers when it comes to managing all of the mandates physicians face today, experts and...
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Reexamining the 80-hour medical resident workweek
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Exclusive report: Physician income is actually improving
After years of struggle, primary care physicians (PCPs) may be seeing glimmers of hope in their financial outlook.It’s not that PCPs have struck any gushers of new-found wealth. It’s just that, for...
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Anger is fraying the doctor-patient relationship
Kelly Collins, MD, often hears patients venting about high copays and insurance denials. Many are working people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford good-quality health...
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Top 13 highest-paying states for physicians
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released the latest data on physiciansâ average salaries across the country, and the results could not have been more diverse across the map. With a...
View ArticleLong-term solutions for physician burnout
Ten years ago, when Bridget Duffy, MD, presented a plan for work-life balance for physicians and nurses to alleviate burnout, it was scoffed at by the CEO of the health system. The executive told her...
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Marriage, children cause more burnout for female physicians
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Why are women leaving medicine?
Equal numbers of men and women are entering medical schools, yet the majority of doctors are male, a finding reiterated by theMedical Economics 88th Physician Report. Related: Medical residents...
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Corporate medicine use doctors as pawns
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The benefits of physician volunteering
Like most people, Gary L. LeRoy, MD, a primary care physician in Dayton, Ohio, usually just wants to go home after work. He puts in long days as an assistant dean at Wright State University's...
View ArticleIt's about time PCPs say enough is enough
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View ArticleWhy are physicians holding off on retirement?
There was a time when doctors looked forward to retiring after a successful career, looking to vacation, play golf and spend more time with their families. But these days, it seems more physicians are...
View ArticleReducing the burdens of technology can restore joy to physicians
Of the many reasons contributing to increasing rates of physician burnout, technology often rates as one of the greatest frustrations. A recent Mayo Clinic study on physician satisfaction with their...
View ArticlePhysicians should look inward to keep from burning out
Five years ago, Tom Jenike, MD, senior vice president of Novant Health, a North Carolina based medical group, struggled to keep hold of the joy in practicing medicine he’d felt earlier in his 19-year...
View ArticlePreventing burnout’s worst case scenario by embracing emotions
A year and a half ago, Kip Wenger, DO, systems medical director of Team Health in Philadelphia, found himself tending to a colleague in the ER who died of her self-inflicted wounds. Hit hard, the...
View ArticleFighting physician burnout at three levels
From yoga to mindfulness meditation, there are no shortage of solutions for physicians experiencing burnout. However, “to start with individual changes is like telling the canary in the coal mine they...
View ArticleEmpowering an entire team to prevent burnout
In his 35-year family medicine practice, Alan Glaseroff, MD, an adjunct professor of medicine at Stanford’s Arnie Milstein Clinical Excellence Research Center, has seen a lot of burnout among...
View ArticleThe three-legged stool approach to physician burnout
Approximately two years ago, when Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, gave their standard employee engagement survey, only 17.5% reported being “fully engaged.” That’s “where everybody’s...
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A creative outlet can recharge a burned-out physician
For most physicians, the work of medicine is a calling and a passion. But it doesn’t have to be the only calling. When signs of burnout strike, sometimes it might be necessary for physicians to pivot...
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Volunteering as a way to recharge burned-out physicians
To a physician already suffering the fatigue or despair of burnout, the idea of spending additional time in a volunteering capacity might sound counter-intuitive. However, research has shown that the...
View ArticleCalculating the Financial Costs of Physician Burnout
The United States is in the middle of a physician burnout crisis, according to recent data published in JAMA. However, not every medical system or practice is rushing to fix the problem. Christine...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Prevent Physician Burnout?
So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and...
View ArticleA New taskforce designs a blueprint to prevent physician burnout
William J. Maples, M.D., executive director for the Institute for Healthcare Excellence in Nebraska, is glad that people have begun to acknowledge the physician burnout epidemic, but he wants to see...
View ArticleTake a lean approach to physician burnout
Addressing the physician burnout epidemic as a whole requires many innovative solutions, and it can’t be done one physician at a time. Hospitals and practices need to think of the big picture. Paul...
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