Business of Medicine
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.
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Your workplace is toxic: Can you make it better?
The two things that tend to plague medical practices most: A culture of fear and someone who is letting ego run the day-to-day.
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12 steps to closing your practice without problems
“Many don’t think about compliance issues, patient abandonment, or accounts receivable that they need to keep open to collect from billing, which...
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Seeking help for burnout may be a gamble for doctors
Disclosing burnout resulting in being “ostracized, penalized, and ultimately ousted,” is the rule rather than the exception.
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3D-printed meds customize the exact dose for sick children
Researchers hope to print precisely dosed tablets in child-friendly shapes and flavors.
Letters from Maine
Targeted warnings
There is a difference between harmless foolishness and stupidity, and one wonders when and in what manner we pediatricians should become involved...
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Five ways to avert a malpractice lawsuit with better EHR techniques
Physicians often assume that if they put a note in the electronic chart, others will look for it, but one expert says it’s far more prudent to...
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NPs, PAs, and physicians hope to join doctors’ union in rare alliance
“The working conditions are really identical. In our view, that means we should be unionizing together.”
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Medicare announces 10 drugs targeted for price cuts in 2026
People on Medicare may in 2026 see prices drop for 10 medicines, including pricey diabetes, cancer, blood clot, and arthritis treatments.
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National Practitioner Data Bank should go public, group says
Public Citizen said Congress should change federal law to let members of the public get information from the NPDB to do a background check on...
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Consider housing insecurity, other issues when managing challenging skin diseases in children, expert says
In children with skin diseases, particularly complex disorders like hidradenitis suppurativa, conversations about adequate housing and other...