Is SAMHSA to Blame for a Broken Mental Health System? Two members of Congress differ on how to fix a failing system Oct 09, 2015
'Failure to Communicate' Drives Misdiagnosis Electronic medical records also need to be improved, says Mark Graber, MD Oct 05, 2015
Teach Patients How to Communicate Symptoms Better Patients should learn the eight characteristics of a symptom Oct 01, 2015
Doctors Urged to Practice 'Conservative Diagnosis' And sharing cell phone numbers is a good idea Sep 29, 2015
Antibiotics for Appendicitis Has Its Downsides Antibiotics rather than surgery for appendicitis sounds good, but there are drawbacks Sep 09, 2015
Primary Care: Medicare's 'Wellness Visit' Money Goes Unclaimed Launched with great fanfare, wellness codes leave docs frustrated Sep 03, 2015
Hybrid Academic-Community Cancer Centers Take Shape Emerging model takes cutting-edge oncology into the community Aug 31, 2015
ACR Joins Outcry Against ABIM's MOC Program Calls it an "overreach" and questions ABIM's financial stewardship Aug 28, 2015
Clear Health Costs: Having Insurance Doesn't Always Pay The case of the $1,700 mammogram Aug 26, 2015
Tales from the OR: Appalling? Criminal? And Anonymous Bad actors in the OR, but who tells? Aug 17, 2015
HypeWatch: Cannabis Bone-Healing Study Oversold Forget the headlines you read. Here's what you should know. Jul 23, 2015
CardioBrief: Dollars for Heart Docs Analysis of CMS database shows some docs pocketed millions from drug and device makers. Jul 23, 2015
The Trouble With Evidence-Based Medicine, the 'Brand' Evidence in medicine is a good thing, but there are things to dislike about EBM Jul 12, 2015
AMA Wants 2-Years of Grace for ICD-10 Errors With time running out, AMA acts to protect physician payment Jun 10, 2015
ICD-10: AMA Considers Grace Period to 'Save Docs' No easy choices for AMA as it mulls next steps Jun 07, 2015
ND vs MD -- Battle Lines Drawn in California The state legislature is poised to open the medicine cabinet to naturopathic physicians Jun 03, 2015
Op-Ed: How to Rein In Out-of-Control Healthcare Costs We all know the medical bill horror stories, but now we have to act on them. May 05, 2015
Docs Take ABIM to Task at Townhall Internal medicine leaders get an earful on maintenance of certification. May 03, 2015
Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market Makers of diet drugs spent more than $60 million on payments to doctors, organized medicine, and lobbyists to get their drugs approved. Apr 19, 2015
Dorry Segev, Extreme Renaissance Man "Every day, I try to take on something Im not good at," says renowned transplant surgeon. Apr 12, 2015
Physician/Writer: Dual and Dueling Responsibilities The ethics of doctors writing about patients. Apr 10, 2015
Excerpt From 'The Digital Doctor' An insider's view of the digitization of healthcare delivery. Apr 09, 2015
Doctors, Stop Sticking Your Patients So Often UCSF's Think Twice, Stick Once campaign aims to curb unnecessary venipunctures. Mar 29, 2015
Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors' ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture." Mar 26, 2015
I, Intern: A Critical Problem in the ICU One intern wants to close the gap between evidence and practice. Mar 11, 2015
Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After Profile Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay). Mar 05, 2015
Male Med Students: More Resolute, More Fallible Gender differences seen in trainees' confidence, knowledge. Mar 03, 2015
The NNT: An Overhyped and Confusing Statistic Some pitfalls of summing up evidence with Numbers Needed to Treat. Mar 02, 2015
Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life. Feb 10, 2015 video
Dr. Maiden Name Will See You Now Medical students give their last names a lot of thought. Feb 02, 2015
Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes? Jan 23, 2015
5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise. Jan 14, 2015
CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don’t Take Heart Meds Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do? Jan 08, 2015
Patients Should Share Accountability for Own Health A new report recommends doctors not be penalized for poor outcomes if patients fail to follow recommended protocols Nov 13, 2014
The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime. Nov 07, 2014
Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... ' Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine. Oct 07, 2014 podcast
Portenoy Opioid Talk Sparks Controversy Opioid advocate Russell Portenoy's invitation to an upcoming NIH workshop is under fire. Sep 28, 2014
MOC Watch: Debunking ABIM Pass Rate Myths In this guest post, the American Board of Internal Medicine explains what determines pass rates for the Maintenance of Certification exam. Sep 10, 2014
