Practice Management
- Running in place: The uncertain future of primary care internal medicine
If we don’t demand change, who will be there to take care of us when we grow old?
- Can a humanities background prevent physician burnout?
Osler urged physicians to study the humanities. Can it prevent professional dissatisfaction and burnout?
- The old humanities and the new science at 100: Osler’s enduring message
One hundred years after his death, what can Osler teach the high-tech physician of today?
- Telemedicine: Past, present, and future
Low reimbursement, licensing, practice issues limit its use.
- Obesity: Are shared medical appointments part of the answer?
Shared medical appointments allow multiple patients to be managed together by a multidisciplinary team.
- Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.
- High users of healthcare: Strategies to improve care, reduce costs
A minority of patients called “high users” consume a lot of healthcare, especially in the emergency department. But therein lies an opportunity.
- A New Year’s transition and looking forward
Time to take stock of advances in—and obstacles to—the delivery of quality healthcare.
- Channeling the flow of medical information
Accesssing information today is like drinking from a firehose. We need some kind of valve to adjust the flow.
- Caring for international patients November 2016
Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).