Business of Medicine
Hitting a Nerve
Take two pills and make a donation
To actively solicit donations from someone under your care is tasteless and inappropriate.
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From scrubs to screens: Growing your patient base with social media
“What we can do for society at large is to provide our input into issues, add informed opinions where there’s controversy, and address...
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What’s right and wrong for doctors on social media
“You have to hold yourself back when posting. Doing things like dancing in the OR are out of whack with the profession.”
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I’ll make a note of that
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Footprints
In medicine, and in everyday life, we strive to do our best for ourselves and for those who need us.
From the Journals
ACP addresses ethical issues for ‘grateful patients’ physician fundraising
“Physicians who directly solicit funds from their own patients do risk interfering with the physician-patient relationship, which is supposed to...
Latest News
Is the U.S. neurologist shortage insurmountable?
Advances in treatments for migraine, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological disorders have created a growing demand for care of...
Opinion
The differential diagnosis you’re missing
An itchy 73-year-old woman came to see me. She had seen several competent dermatologists, had comprehensive workups, and had reasonable, even...
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The top tax breaks that physicians use
“You want to maximize your retirement contributions,” says Mark Steber, the chief tax information officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. “If you...
Hitting a Nerve
Hunt, gather, and turn on the Keurig
Over the millennia we’ve changed daily routines from something critical for survival to what we need for individual success in a chosen field.
Managing Your Practice
Artificial intelligence in your office
Some AI-based tools are available to use in your office right now, with no “existential” threat to anybody.