Business of Medicine
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How to get paid if your patient passes on
“That doctor-patient relationship is a very precious relationship, so you don’t want to mix that financial aspect of providing care with the...
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...
Feature
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...
From the Journals
U.S. counties hit hard by a lack of psychiatric care
Counties without psychiatrists and broadband had significantly higher rates of adult depression, frequent mental distress, drug overdose mortality...
Opinion
Artificial intelligence in your office
Some AI-based tools are available to use in your office right now, with no “existential” threat to anybody.
Feature
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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Your patient bequeathed money to you: Can you accept it?
“To reject these gifts would be a slap in the face to the patient, [but] where it gets more ethically cloudy is when a gift is very substantial...
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Use of mental health services soared during pandemic
Telehealth visits were responsible for the rise in use of services.
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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...
Commentary
Mothers in medicine: What can we learn when worlds collide?
The lessons learned in being a good mother can be directly applied in patient care, and vice versa.