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How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
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Infographic: Is physician behavior on social media really so bad?
It’s not as egregious as you might think.
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California wants to snip costs for vasectomies and condoms
If the measure passes, it would take effect in 2024, and California would join a handful of states that require...
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Indiana’s new abortion ban may drive some young ob.gyns. to leave a state where they’re needed
A residency program director expects this will “deeply impact” how Indiana hospitals recruit and retain medical professionals.
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Physicians’ bad behavior seen at work, online by colleagues: Survey
Bullying or harassing clinicians and staff was the runaway winner, with 86% of respondents saying they’d seen this type of behavior at work at...
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Doctors using fake positive reviews to boost business
“In this online space, it’s the Wild West; cheating is rewarded.”
Opinion
Dig like an archaeologist
He was a fit man in his 40s. Thick legs. Maybe he was long-distance walker? The bones of his right arm were more developed than his left – a right...
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On the Wisconsin-Illinois border: Clinics in neighboring states team up on abortion care
There has been a surge of patients from Wisconsin for abortion appointments at all Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinics – a tenfold increase in...
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No-shows
The most common reason for missed appointments, however, according to multiple studies, is that patients simply forget that they have one.
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Patients who won’t pay: What’s your recourse?
Owing to the pandemic, job loss, and the possible loss of health insurance, patients have had more difficulty managing copays, coinsurance, and...
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#ShowMeYourBuns: Social media outrage over nurses’ messy hair policy
“Nurses are running around over 12 hours, sweating in patient rooms, putting on PPE, taking off PPE, saving lives, doing CPR. They don’t even have...