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The hidden cost of a medical career: Is it still worth it?
In her KevinMD article, Janet Constance Coleman-Belin describes the overwhelming difficulties increasingly being seen by many during their medical education and now facing many more of our young, bright minds as they choose and migrate into their futur…
Violence in health care: Why doctors and nurses are leaving
I was recently asked what I thought were some of the biggest evolving obstacles to physicians and health care in 2024 and beyond. My answer: Health care has become America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence, with health care wo…
Why doctors increasingly turn away from rural clinical practice
It was recently reported that barely 10 percent of U.S. doctors work in rural health care. That number is continuing to shrink, while over 20 percent of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, and more than 80 percent of rural Americans are considere…
