• Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong? Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong?   It's possible to take genetic material from 3 people to produce a viable egg. But will this open the door to overengineered 'designer' babies? And is it just a bad idea?
    Medscape Business of Medicine, March 7, 2014
  • Patient Privacy Breaches: Sexual, Creepy, and Illegal Patient Privacy Breaches: Sexual, Creepy, and Illegal Some patient privacy breaches are relatively innocuous, but those concerning someone's romantic or sexual life can be quite destructive.
    Medscape Business of Medicine, March 6, 2014
  • Cool Websites for Doctors Cool Websites for Doctors Internet guru Nick Genes shares some of his favorite Websites and apps for medical information and entertainment.
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 27, 2014
  • Hate Dealing With an EHR? Use a Scribe and Profits Increase Hate Dealing With an EHR? Use a Scribe and Profits Increase The use of medical scribes is spreading from hospitals to outpatient practices because scribes enable doctors to fully focus on patients, see an extra patient an hour, and get home on time.
    Medscape Business of Medicine, February 27, 2014
 

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  • Face Transplant Doc: Challenges in Repairing Destroyed Faces Face Transplant Doc: Challenges in Repairing Destroyed Faces   World-famous doctor Eduardo Rodriguez describes the deep emotional issues that arise when transplanting a donor face to a patient, the possibility of female-to-male face transplants, and more.
    Medscape Business of Medicine, March 7, 2014
  • Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong? Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong?   It's possible to take genetic material from 3 people to produce a viable egg. But will this open the door to overengineered 'designer' babies? And is it just a bad idea?
    Medscape Business of Medicine, March 7, 2014
  • Gore on mHealth and the Reinvention of Life and Death Gore on mHealth and the Reinvention of Life and Death   Former Vice President Al Gore speaks to Medscape's Eric Topol about Twitter and how digital medicine is changing the 'being' in 'human being.'
    Medscape, March 7, 2014
  • Wisely Choosing the Right Care Wisely Choosing the Right Care   More than 60 medical societies have named hundreds of routine actions or tests that are unnecessary and shouldn't be done, speeding the momentum of this effort.
    Medscape Internal Medicine, March 3, 2014
  • Cool Websites for Doctors Cool Websites for Doctors Internet guru Nick Genes shares some of his favorite Websites and apps for medical information and entertainment.
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 27, 2014
  • 10 Most Costly Inpatient Conditions 10 Most Costly Inpatient Conditions Several prevalent health disorders account for billions of dollars in healthcare costs. Some critics question whether these high costs are necessary.
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 24, 2014
  • Popular Diets: What Docs Eat, What They Need to Know Popular Diets: What Docs Eat, What They Need to Know We know what diets physicians followed per our recent lifestyle survey. But what does the latest evidence say about the many currently popular diets?
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 19, 2014
  • Berwick on CMS, Death Panels, and His Run for Governor Berwick on CMS, Death Panels, and His Run for Governor   Donald Berwick talks with Eric Topol about his decades-long career with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, his tenure as Director of CMS, and why he's running for governor of Massachusetts.
    Medscape, February 18, 2014
  • Paying for Kidneys: A Good Idea? Paying for Kidneys: A Good Idea?   Dr. Jeffrey Berns reflects on recent articles that discuss the merits and pitfalls of offering cash to potential kidney donors.
    Medscape Nephrology, February 14, 2014
  • Brain Food: What to Avoid Brain Food: What to Avoid Making sense of conflicting evidence on what foods and dietary pattern are potentially detrimental to the brain.
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 13, 2014
  • Artificial Hearts: Maybe Not Such a Blessing Artificial Hearts: Maybe Not Such a Blessing   A French company recently implanted a new artificial heart, and the patient is doing well. But artificial hearts raise many ethical and practical issues.
    Medscape Business of Medicine, February 13, 2014
  • Why We Practice Medicine Why We Practice Medicine Experts share some of the best moments in their medical careers.
    Medscape Features Slideshows, February 11, 2014

Reports

  • Clinical & Office Staff Salary ReportClinical & Office Staff Salary Report We asked physicians about the salaries, benefits, and bonuses they give their medical office staff. Will they be firing or hiring next year?
  • Best and Worst Places to Practice: 2013Best and Worst Places to Practice: 2013 Some states offer more than others when it comes to what physicians want. If you're contemplating where to locate your practice, check out our list and decide which factors are important to you.
  • Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2013 ResultsMedscape Physician Compensation Report: 2013 Results The most current physician salary details by medical specialty. Includes data from more than 22,000 US physicians and reveals rarely shared information on personal income, patient load, time spent per patient, attitudes toward insurers, and much more.
  • Physician Lifestyles -- Linking to Burnout: Medscape SurveyPhysician Lifestyle Report 2013 This comprehensive report represents responses from close to over 24,000 US physicians and reveals details on their political and spiritual beliefs, health, family life, and vacations.
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