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Patients exposed to HIV, hepatitis at Massachusetts hospital
There is no evidence to date of any infections resulting from this incident.
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Rx for resilience: Five prescriptions for physician burnout
“Every person should have a toolkit of the things that bring them out of the psychological and physical distress that dysregulates their nervous...
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Rheumatology Match Day results for 2024 follow trends of past years
Adult rheumatology remains popular, but pediatric rheumatology continues to be less successful, filling only 55% of programs.
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Why don’t doctors feel like heroes anymore?
“None of us are invincible,” and it’s dangerous to forget that “the people behind the symbols are also human.”
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Do patients follow up on referrals after telehealth visits?
Investigators retrospectively examined test and referral orders for more than 4,000 patients to see how many complied with recommendations to have...
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UHC accused of using AI to skirt doctors’ orders, deny claims
The case raises ethical and legal questions about whether AI can replace or supplement human tasks and interactions.
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Use of Urinalysis to Assess Adherence to Prescribed Cardiovascular Medications: Focus on Hypertension
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Before signing an offer letter: Read this
Some employers play on the fact that younger doctors ... tend to be trusting or feel they don’t have negotiation power.
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Infographic: Careers that tempt doctors to leave medicine
This infographic shows the five potential new careers that most interested U.S. physicians considering a change.
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Compensation is key to fixing primary care shortage
Substantial disparities between what primary care physicians earn relative to specialists can weigh into medical students’ decisions about which...
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Physician’s dispute with Mayo Clinic raises free speech, academic freedom concerns
“Joyner said he’s ‘frustrated’ with the NIH’s ‘bureaucratic rope-a-dope,’ calling the agency’s guidelines ‘a wet blanket.’ ”
The Optimized Doctor
Life in the woods
There were no commutes or late patients here. But there was work to be done.