In health care, as in life, people devote a lot of time and attention to the way things should be. They’d be better off focusing on what actually could be. As an example, 57% to 70% of American voters believe our nation “should” adopt…
Category: primary care
From addiction to exclusion: a physician’s struggle for redemption
Many consequences can happen to a physician who has faced the disease of addiction. One of the worst is to be placed on the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) exclusion list, which prohibits billing for both Medicare and Medicaid. During my hydrocod…
Healing the healer: How physicians can overcome the struggle of caring [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us in this insightful podcast episode as we welcome Karen Leitner, an internal medicine-pediatrics physician and life coach, to discuss the unique challenges physicians face when their…
Professional creep in medicine challenged by AI: How ChatGPT is revolutionizing medical diagnosis
Professional “creep” refers to the phenomenon where the responsibilities and expectations of a particular profession gradually expand beyond their original scope and begins to overlap with other professions. This can occur due to various fa…
Rural America’s health care crisis: Unmasking the physician shortage epidemic
Data published in 2021 by the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the U.S. could experience a shortage of 37,800 to 124,000 physicians by 2033. Rural America is struggling, as the majority of graduate training facilities are disprop…
Why physicians are losing autonomy
There are difficult issues confronting physicians generally, regardless of whether they are primary care physicians or specialists or employed or in private practice. The list is long and growing as more and more requirements, costs, mandates, and regu…
Physicians: Don’t believe these career transition myths
Are you a physician looking to explore nonclinical career options and make a fresh start? While the thought of transitioning away from your current job might be daunting, these five myths about career transition should not hold you back – there a…
From community to corporation: the transformation of primary care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this podcast episode, we have Michael Fine, a family physician and author of On Medicine as Colonialism, sharing his insights on the changing landscape of primary care. He reflects on hi…
When AI rises: the great reversal of human privilege and its impact on society
In a broad, ironic sense, the relationship between privileged humans and the marginalized wilderness has shifted over time. As humanity evolved and overcame its previous disadvantages, people began to consider the possibility of limiting human populati…
Are predatory medical publishers exploiting peer review system? Here’s a solution.
With the booming economy of predatory publishing in medicine, it is time to rethink what constitutes peer review and how peers are being standardized. Perhaps with the absence of standardization for anonymous peers, manuscripts should undergo a pre-pub…
