News
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: August 17, 2023
We aren’t factory workers punching out widgets, we’re physicians caring for people and people cannot be standardized.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: July 19, 2023
Patients will be inconvenienced and pay higher costs to experience their appointment in person. This should not be surprising.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: June 21, 2023
With COVID waning and masks doffed, I've found myself back to handshaking.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: May 18, 2023
Now more than ever, I feel we have to be physically fit to deal with a physicians’ day’s work.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: April 18, 2023
Explained waits are more tolerable than unexplained waits and giving updates always help. If you’re running an hour late in the office, have your s...
News
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: March 18, 2023
Wise is more than being brilliant at bullous diseases or knowing how to sleep train a baby.
News
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: February 14, 2023
I asked ChatGPT to write an article about itself in the style of Christopher Hitchens. It was nothing like his incisive and eloquent prose, but it ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: January 18, 2023
Upon my skinny, adaptable desk the other day sat a white envelope that was hand addressed to me. It was postmarked more than 2 weeks before.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: January 3, 2023
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have tak...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: November 17, 2022
A recent Medscape survey of physicians found that 85% said they had come to work sick in 2022.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: October 18, 2022
“How did we miss out on that?” “What?” my physician friend replied as we stood in line at the coffee cart. “Root cause. I mean, we inv...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: September 20, 2022
We've driven medicine to the efficient and left little of the dignity it seems.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: August 16, 2022
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-...
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: July 20, 2022
Nocebo, from the Latin “I shall harm,” is the dark counterpart to the placebo.
Opinion
- Author:
- Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
Publish date: June 20, 2022
I thought about my patient’s suffering and the brutal injustice of fate. It feels like it’s everywhere lately.
