I found this from the AMA: Committed to making physician burnout a thing of the past, the AMA has studied, and is addressing, issues causing and fueling physician burnout—including time constraints, technology and regulations—to better understand the challenges physicians face. The AMA’s STEPS Forward™ is an open-access platform featuring more than 50 modules that offer actionable, expert-driven strategies and insights supported…
I thought this was interesting. I saw it on Twitter from someone by the name of Bogdan Enache. It seems a new antibiotic is being researched and the study was in the New England Journal of Medicine. It’s called Omadacycline, for community acquired pneumonia. Bogdan went on to pose these questions: The company: Designed – conducted…
Direct Primary Care is growing steadily but it sure seems that many people are missing the advantages we offer. Ryan Neuhofel, DO, and president of the Direct Primary Care Alliance, points out that all the big investors love this company HIMS. You can see the deal they offer above for an ED drug. What they…
Please read NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD’s blog piece called If You Call Me a Provider, I Will Assume You are a Nazi. In it she traces back the origin of when doctors were first called “providers”: In 1933, the German Society of Pediatrics asked pediatricians who were Jewish to voluntarily resign or be removed from the…
Even as Medicaid is busting state budgets sea to shining sea, organized medicine led by the AMA, concerned advocacy groups, and the at least half of elected officials are pushing to expand the program (and California would like to expand it to large chunks of Latin America). Medicaid paperwork and reporting requirements continue to enlarge,…
Well, I laughed. Link is here. Tweet
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard…
Let me share some information from a few recent studies: Cancers fueled by obesity are on the rise among young adults in the United States and appearing at increasingly younger ages, according to an analysis released Monday by the American Cancer Society. The circadian clock is a complex cellular mechanism that, through the control of diverse…
You may not have heard but hospitals are worried about an impending employment crisis. Is it about the nursing shortage? No. How about retaining great doctors? Nope. Instead: More than half of hospital and health system executives polled would not have a chief executive lined up if their CEO suddenly left, according to a new…
Okay, you can read the whole thing here but be careful because it just may make your head explode. The title of this blog was ripped off from an AAFP Smartbrief headline talking about the program. I laughed so hard when I saw it and then this image came to mind. I would like to…