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Physician Burnout Is Increasing, Gender Inequality Is Making It Worse
OB-GYNs and pediatricians have reported some of the medical profession’s largest increases in burnout over the past two years. This article examines an unwritten rule that explains this unfortunate trend.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: The Doctor-Patient Power Dynamic
Improving the doctor-patient relationship will require better communication and greater trust. Neither will happen until there is a more equal balance of power in the exam room.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Getting The Quality Of Care You Pay For
High-priced hospitals don’t necessarily deliver higher-quality care. That’s because of an unwritten rule that hospital administrators and their boards dutifully follow.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Following The Science
Doctors who adhere to scientifically derived guidelines make better decisions than those who follow their guts. But this doesn’t mean that every patient should receive the exact same medical care every time.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Restoring The Value Of Primary Care
If saving a life is the most valuable thing a doctor can do, surely the physicians who save the most lives would garner the most esteem, right? Right?
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Selecting The Best Technology
In the 21st century, all but one U.S. industry has used technology to lower costs, improve quality and make products/services more accessible. Healthcare is the exception. This rule explains why.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Paying Your Doctor
As it was in the last century, physicians still get paid quid pro quo: They provide a service, submit a bill, receive a check, repeat. That rule needs to be broken.
Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Selecting The Best Doctors
This article, the first in a new series called ‘Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare,’ looks at the outdated and outrageous ways we select and train future doctors.
Year 3 Of Covid-19 Will Bring Familiar Fears, New Anxieties
As Americans embark on year three of Covid-19, mounting evidence suggests that most of us are struggling with the pandemic more than we might think.
Why Endemic Covid-19 Will Be Cause For Celebration
Leading immunologists now believe Covid-19 will become endemic—a persistent but manageable threat on par with seasonal flu—conceivably by the end of 2022. All things considered, that should be cause for great celebration, not dissapointment.
