Medical Lifestyle News

• AGA CPU: Essentials to Prevent Complications With Ostomies Complications and challenges with self-care are common among patients with an enteral stoma, but most available guidance documents fail to offer management principles beyond the immediate perioperative period.
  MDedge News, September 22, 2023
• Is the US Neurologist Shortage Insurmountable? The US neurologist shortage is reducing patients' access to care and increasing physician burnout, siphoning off members of a critical workforce that isn't growing fast enough.
  Medscape Medical News, September 20, 2023
• Nationwide Hematologists Shortage: What's Being Done? Over decades, the shrinking pool of classical hematologists -- who are compensated far less than hematologist-oncologists -- has put patients at risk without access to adequate and timely care.
  MDedge News, September 20, 2023
• How Docs Are Cutting Their Personal Expenses to Save More Physicians are taking many steps to decrease their spending in order to boost their savings for kids' college and their own retirement. Here's what they're doing.
  Medscape Medical News, September 15, 2023
• Your Workplace Is Toxic: Can You Make It Better? Workplace toxicity can arise anywhere, including a medical practice. What are the red flags, and can you fix it?
  Medscape Medical News, September 13, 2023
• 12 Steps to Closing Your Practice Without Problems Practice management consultants share advice for closing your practice that can prevent headaches later on.
  Medscape Medical News, September 12, 2023
• Burned Out? Your Employer's Response May Surprise You Burnout affects more than half of physicians, but when they ask their employers for help, the level of support offered varies widely. One Colorado doctor's experience may serve as a cautionary tale.
  Medscape Medical News, September 08, 2023
• Will AI Replace Cardiologists and Turn Them Into Managers? Although artificial intelligence is changing the role of the physician, several experts agreed that it is not making cardiologists superfluous.
  Medscape Medical News, September 07, 2023
• A Patient Leaves You Money in Their Will: Can You Accept It? Some patients are so grateful to their physicians that they give them gifts, and on occasion, even name the physician in their will. But this could potentially lead to problems.
  Medscape Medical News, September 06, 2023
• Domestic Violence in Healthcare Is Real and Underreported Tasked with screening for abuse, medical professionals often struggle to recognize their own experiences of domestic violence and rarely ask for support at work due to stigma and policies.
  Medscape Medical News, August 31, 2023
• What Emergency Medical Equipment Do You Carry With You? An emergency can pop up when you least expect it — on the side of the road, in a restaurant, while in line at the store. Do you keep supplies at the ready or stored in your personal vehicle?
  Medscape Reader Polls, August 31, 2023
• Should Doctors Be Funnier? These MDs Are Real Comedians Doctors embracing stand-up comedy and funny videos challenge the sober image of medicine — and some are criticized as unprofessional. Their answer? Laugh it off and laugh it up.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• Robotic Patients? They're Useful but Have Limitations Increasingly sophisticated robots mimic various conditions and enable medical students to apply the tools of clinical practice. Nevertheless, their cost has been a subject of criticism.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Insurers Lobbied to Charge Docs Fees for Online Payments Physicians shouldn't have to pay large fees to receive insurers' payments electronically under the Affordable Care Act. But lobbyists convinced federal officials otherwise, according to a ProPublica news investigation.
  Medscape Medical News, August 21, 2023
• Could a Malpractice Insurer Drop You When You Need It Most? One insurer refused to defend a physician when he was accused of overprescribing; the situation ruined his career.
  Medscape Medical News, August 21, 2023
• At-Home Exercise Improves Healthcare Workers' Mental Health A 12-week, application-based exercise program reduces depression symptoms, burnout, and absenteeism in healthcare workers, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2023
• Nigeria Public Doctors End Strike After Talks With Lawmakers Frontline doctors in Nigerian public hospitals on Friday ended a 3-week strike to press for a pay rise after the removal of a subsidy on petrol, the doctors' union said.
  Reuters Health Information, August 11, 2023
• What Did You Learn in Med School That You Disagree With Now? Medical school has evolved rapidly. What one doctor learned years ago another unlearns today. Here's what doctors say they learned in med school that they disagree with now.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2023
• Keeping Your Practice Efficient: Here's What to Do Running an inefficient medical practice can be more than unpleasant; it poses problems like poor communication, negative attitudes, and stress and tension to all who work there.
  Medscape Medical News, August 09, 2023
• We Asked Doctors Using AI Scribes: Just How Good Are They? Medscape spoke with doctors who are using this tech to help you decide if you should invest in it, too.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2023
• Just 1 in 10 With Overweight/Obesity Lose 5% of Body Weight The proportions achieving a healthy body weight are even lower.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2023
• Is 'High-Risk' Stress Relief Healthy for Doctors? From extreme sports to having a few drinks, blowing off steam almost always carries risk. For physicians who engage in risky behavior during off hours, is the payoff worth the potential cost?
  Medscape Medical News, August 04, 2023
• NIH Selects Marrazzo to Lead Infectious Diseases Institute The National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday that Jeanne Marrazzo had been selected to head its infectious diseases institute.
  Reuters Health Information, August 02, 2023
• Top US Hospitals for Psychiatric Care Ranked Two Massachusetts hospitals, McLean Hospital in Belmont and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, are the top ranked hospitals for psychiatry, according to US News & World Report.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2023