Business of Medicine Perspective

• A Commission Should Probe Our Lame Response to the COVID Crisis   Professor Art Caplan calls for the creation of a national COVID-19 commission.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 14, 2021
• When Does a Person Become Your Patient? You get a phone call from a 'friend of a friend' asking for advice. Or you find a new problem (in a current patient) that's outside your expertise. What's your duty of care in each case?
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 08, 2021
• Life After Death, and the Case of the Disappearing Digit Brain cells that can stay active after death, a host of COVID-19 article retractions, a finger is lost -- then found -- in a mixed martial arts fight, and the 'placebo effect' gets a test from Boston researchers.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 08, 2021
• In Telepsychiatry, Access Is Everything Digital technology has been critical to our ability to reach patients during the pandemic -- but only for those who have access to it.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 06, 2021
• Improve Doctor-Patient Relationships With This One Question After personal tragedy struck, Dr Doug Lake found himself more closely considering his patients' experiences, completely changing how he interacted with them.
  Medscape, April 05, 2021
• Medical Ethics Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic   Drs Carol Bernstein, Rebecca Brendel, and Allen Dyer discuss medical ethics and COVID-19 as related to the allocation of resources, taking the vaccine, distributing the vaccine, and trustworthiness.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 01, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor's Doubts Leads to Missed Diagnosis A mysterious illness continues to plague a patient. Could the physician have done anything to reach an earlier diagnosis?
  Cooperative of American Physicians, April 01, 2021
• The Important Traits Needed for an FDA Commissioner A former FDA executive describes the key traits that an FDA Commissioner should possess in order to be most effective in the job.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 30, 2021
• Docs Ignore Sexual Harassment: What Happened to Do No Harm?   Dr Alok Patel speaks out against sexual harassment in healthcare, with insights from Drs Natalie M. Crawford and Pamela Mehta.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, March 26, 2021
• From the Pandemic, a Roadmap for Lowering the Costs of Medicine To speed COVID-19 treatments, federal officials adopted a new, nimbler regulatory posture. The change was long overdue.
  Undark, March 26, 2021
• Romance, Drugs, and Death: Changing Physician Attitudes   Dr Art Caplan discusses findings from the biannual Medscape Ethics Report on topics related to physician-assisted suicide, random drug testing, payment influence, and romance.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 24, 2021
• Is Burnout a Valid Reason to Leave a Job? If you know you're unhappy at work, here's how to decide whether to stay or go.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 24, 2021
• COVID-19: When Will Our Lives Be 'Normal' Again?   Dr Art Caplan describes what daily life may become as more people get COVID vaccines.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 22, 2021
• Applying Lessons From Oprah to Your Practice Trying to be like Oprah can help you be better in clinic tomorrow. If we break down what she's doing, it's just fundamentals done exceedingly well.
  Medscape Dermatology, March 19, 2021
• We're Not in It for the Cash In 1392, Chaucer's physician used his learning to enrich himself and his apothecary. In the 21st century, is medicine a business or a profession?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 16, 2021
• Should a PhD Be Called 'Doctor'?   Professor Art Caplan discusses the appropriateness of a PhD using the title of doctor.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 16, 2021
• Big Pharma Is Collaborating on COVID-19 Vaccines -- Here's Why Although pharmaceutical companies have always cooperated in some form, the need to produce vaccines on a massive scale has escalated the trend, says Dr Nassir Ghaemi.
  Medscape Psychiatry, March 12, 2021
• Should We Soon Require Vaccine Passports?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses mandates and vaccine passports as critical next steps to getting back to normal.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 10, 2021
• Let Experts Do What Experts Do Why didn't the US government use the same public-private partnership strategy for the vaccine rollout that was used for the vaccine development?
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, March 09, 2021
• Why Not Give Physician Practices the Vaccine to Distribute? MGMA's Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, says state and county departments of health should be leveraging the existing systems and patient relationships that physician practices offer at the local level.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 08, 2021