Don ’t make me choose between motherhood and my career
A debate highlighting gender discrimination in medicine currently rages within the pediatric hospitalist medicine community. The debate centers on the board certification process for“grandfathering” for the new pediatric hospitalist subspecialty which effectively excludes women on the basis of motherhood. For those not familiar with“grandfathering in,” this is the process by which a new […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Pediatrics Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Bookends, Part 1: Letter To The Secretary of NCDHHS Regarding Randolph Hospital
8/21/2019Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH,Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services2001 Mail Service CenterRaleigh, N.C. 27699-2000Re: Randolph Hospital, Asheboro“I sat with my Anger long enough . . . until she told me her real name was Grief.”-UnknownDr. Cohen,A friend of a friend connected me to Sam Hedrick – who advised that if I composed a letter and e-mailed it to her, it would be put into the hands of the Secretary. This finished product is three weeks later than planned . . . because I briefly faltered . . . wondering (for good reason), “What IS the point?”. But I had to do MORE than ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - August 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
New doctors are prioritizing the wrong things
Every year, there’s this rite of passage, the passing of the baton, as our graduating senior residents move on to fellowships, or into spots as hospitalists, or to practice jobs here in New York City or other cities, and a fresh new group of newly-minted physicians arrives ready to take up the gauntlet of training […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/fred-n-pelzman" rel="tag" > Fred N. Pelzman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 1
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
By BOB HERTZ
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
Medicare offers decent protection — i.e. limits on balance billing, and no patient liability if a claim is denied.
But under age 65, it is a Wild West — especially for emergency care, and drugs and devices. The more they charge, the more they make. Even good health insurance does not offer complete financial insulation.
We need more legal p...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Patients Bob Hertz health reform Price controls price gouging Source Type: blogs
Zeev Neuwirth Reframes Primary Care …Brilliantly
By AL LEWIS
I would urge THCB-ers to read Reframing Healthcare by Dr. Zeev Neuwirth. While much of the territory he covers will be familiar to those of us with an interest in healthcare reform (meaning just about everyone reading this blog), Chapter 5 breaks new ground in the field of primary care.
Primary care is perhaps the sorest spot in healthcare, the
sorest of industries. Primary care providers (PCPs) are underpaid,
dissatisfied, and in short supply. (The supply issue could be solved in part if
employers didn’t pay employees
bonuses to get useless annual checkups or fine them if they don’t, of
course.) ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Al Lewis primary care primary care physicians Reframing Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Are hospitalists to blame for the fragmentation of medical care?
“What About Recovery” is a provocative essay by Yale professor Lenore Buckley, MD, in JAMA. She writes in detail about the death of her 68-year-old brother in a hospital. She felt his doctors did not do enough to help him recover because his nutritional and physical therapy needs were not met. H owever, there’s more to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/skeptical-scalpel" rel="tag" > Skeptical Scalpel, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Hospitalist Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS): A New Initiative From Academic Medicine
Academic
Medicine recently launched the Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars
(ATLAS) initiative, which I
will oversee as the journal’s inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee
Engagement. So, you might be wondering, who am I and why ATLAS? I hope this
blog post will help answer those questions!
Who am I?
I’m a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at NYU Langone Health in
New York City, and am planning to pursue a career as an academic hospitalist. As
mentioned above, I
will serve as the inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement, overseeing
the ATLAS initiative. My term will last until summer 2020, when we ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: ATLAS Featured learners Source Type: blogs
Maximize locum tenens income: 4 tips to make more and work less
Every hospitalist heard that locum tenens work pays better than permanent. Of course, I did, too, when I first started practicing. This was one of the reasons why I switched to the full-time locum tenens years ago. Now, things have changed since then, and employed hospitalist salaries have been rising steadily over the years. It be came […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-locumguy" rel="tag" > The LocumGuy < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
This physician takes the time to be humbled and amazed by the stories patients share
What if I told you that, as your doctor, I ’d rather listen to your memoir than to your lungs? Or that while I find the sound of a beating heart a marvel to behold, I’m more interested in hearing the jazz song that you wrote or talking about the words tattooed on your left wrist. […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/zachary-g-jacobs" rel="tag" > Zachary G. Jacobs, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
We Don ’t Understand How Our Users Find Information
I had the unique pleasure to be the moderator for the McGovern Lecture at this year’s Medical Library Association Meeting. You must login w/ your paid meeting registration to watch. If you didn’t go to the meeting you can get a virtual registration to watch (scroll down to econference rates)
The McGovern Lecture traditionally is one person who give a lecture on a topic of importance to health sciences librarianship. This year the lecture featured 4 speakers (an Academic Hospitalist, a Professor of Physical Therapy, a Family Medicine doctor, and a Director of Nursing Research) all speaking about how they find...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - May 23, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How the death of a patient affected this nocturnist
I am a nocturnist (a nocturnal hospitalist). I love my job, but many nights my work can seem unfulfilling. For one, taking care of hospitalized adult patients is primarily spent managing exacerbations of chronic diseases. Therefore, the reality is that most patients will not be cured, only managed. Additionally, there is the loneliness factor, the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/scott-keeney" rel="tag" > Scott Keeney, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Very low utilization of advance care planning (ACP) CPT codes among hospitalists
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - April 19, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: ethics politics and policy Source Type: blogs
Fixing burnout among hospitalists is a leadership challenge
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”– Mahatma Gandhi Burnout among physicians is at an epidemic proportion. National data suggests that more than 50 percent of our workforce is burned out, and this trend has been across the board from physicians in training to practicing […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rahulkumar-singh" rel="tag" > Rahulkumar Singh, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Hospitalist Practice Management Source Type: blogs
What the hospitalist needs to know about the TTP-HUS spectrum
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - March 25, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: hematology Source Type: blogs
