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Byron/Flickr The Challenge of Treating 'Frailty'
For reasons not fully understood, some patients simply fare worse than others.
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Mike Mozart/Flickr The Case Against Drugstore Clinics
Stopping at the local CVS is often quicker, cheaper, and easier than going to a hospital or primary-care physician, but it also denies patients the quality care that comes from long-lasting relationships with doctors.
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Shutterstock The Case for Concierge Medicine
In the trade-off between more patients and more personalized care, growing numbers of physicians are choosing the latter.
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Ted S. Warren/AP Should Doctors Work for Hospitals?
Many physicians feel they are losing control of their profession.
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Why Doctor Ratings Are Misleading
There is danger in making much of physician-rating sites.
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adrianclarkmbbs/flickr Should Academic Physicians Serve on Drug-Company Boards?
Conflicts of interest are present even when physicians believe that no impact exists.
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_J_D_R_/flickr Making Profits and Differences at Hospitals
The real value of a company—hospitals included—is not only in money, but in social good.
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Kevin Wolf/AP Doctors and Tech: Who Serves Whom?
Giving physicians more say in how to incorporate technology into their work is good for patients, and the field.
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The Jenson Society, NY For the Young Doctor About to Burn Out
Professional burnout is the sum total of hundreds and thousands of tiny betrayals of purpose, each one so minute that it hardly attracts notice.
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Wikimedia Commons The Collapse of Big Law: A Cautionary Tale for Big Med
The legal industry's obsession with performance metrics has contributed to its dramatic collapse. Could the same happen with physicians and hospitals?
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Troy Maben/AP Bringing Dementia Patients to Life
The importance of ritual
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♥ jules/flickr Midwives for the Dying
A physician and nurse practitioner discuss the emerging role of medicals professionals who ease the death process. There is no one right way to die, but just as we need help coming into the world, we need support and love going out of it.
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Paulo Whitaker/Reuters A Case Against High Chairs
Despite increasingly elaborate technology, babies are falling too often.
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Wikimedia Commons Who Does Your Physician Work For?
Fewer than half of U.S. doctors are self-employed, down from over three quarters in 1983. How that affects delivery of healthcare
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Does McDonald's Belong in a Children's Hospital?
Unhealthy endorsement vs. comfort food at a trying time
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jbcurio/flickr What Happened to the Doctors' Lounge?
The lounge was once a place for physicians to regroup and congregate. Today, where lounges do exist, they are places for paperwork.
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Shutterstock When Physicians' Careers Suffer Because They Refuse to Prescribe Narcotics
In some new systems where doctors are reviewed by patients, physicians unwilling to supply addicts with pain pills receive poor patient-satisfaction feedback. That is judged as poor performance by hospital administrators.
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Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Why Are Hospital CEOs Paid So Well?
There is little correlation between CEO income and hospital quality—but there is between salary and excessive marketing.
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mecookie/ flickr Struck by Turtle: Anticipating a New Healthcare-Billing System
“I went to medical school to care for patients, not to fill out forms.”
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7 Classics Every Doctor Should Read
A reminder to think beyond textbooks and journals; to always be a student of the human condition
