Medical Lifestyle Perspective

• Infographic: Residents' Bank Accounts Fatten After Lean Years Medical residents report on their average compensation, what they earn at different stages of residency, how much pay they think they deserve, and how much student loan debt they carry.
  Medscape, September 21, 2023
• Reignite Professional Passion Through Lifestyle Medicine In this age of ubiquitous burnout in the health professions, lifestyle medicine fosters clinician healing.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 20, 2023
• 25 Once-in-a-Lifetime Bucket List Vacations Many are deciding that now's the time to visit some far-off amazing places for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We offer some options to help you choose your dream vacation.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 13, 2023
• Infographic: What Drives Students to Enter Medical School? Medical students reveal the chief reasons why they entered medical school and their specialty, and they discuss the burden of school loans they will carry into a career as a physician.
  Medscape, September 12, 2023
• 20 Best Places for Doctors to Retire: 2023 Where would you like to retire? Find out which places have the "secret sauce."
  Medscape News Slideshows, September 07, 2023
• Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine   A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• Infographic: Doctors Act Out on Social Media, Peers See It Physicians discuss how they see other doctors posting on social media in ways they may regret, and which platforms have the biggest issues.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• The Magic of Music Music can transport you to another place, briefly clearing your head from what is going on around you. It is a welcome escape to a virtual beach and tropical drink.
  MDedge, September 06, 2023
• Mothers in Medicine: What Can We Learn When Worlds Collide? While a lot has been written about the struggles women face in medicine, there have been decidedly fewer analyses that focus on women who choose to become mothers while working in medicine.
  MDedge, September 01, 2023
• Anesthesiologists' Role in Promoting Equitable Health Care In this editorial, the author explores how anesthesiologists can advance the cause of health equity.
  Anesthesiology, August 30, 2023
• A Trauma-Informed Approach to Address Burnout in Nursing This article describes an organizational-level approach to help address burnout among nurses.
  OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, August 28, 2023
• The Gap in Life Expectancy Between the U.S. and Other Countries This sobering study demonstrates that life expectancy in the U.S. has progressively deteriorated over the last several years, with 56 countries on 6 continents surpassing U.S. life expectancy.
  American Journal of Public Health, August 28, 2023
• Cruel Summer for Medical Students and Taylor Swift Fans An associate dean of student affairs sheds insight into why medical students applying for residency tend to be as stressed out as Taylor Swift fans trying to score concert tickets.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, August 25, 2023
• Infographic: How Nurses' Mental Health Is Holding Up Nurse practitioners reveal that burnout and depression remain high in their ranks and that many nurses face challenges from overwork, stress, or suicidal thoughts.
  Medscape, August 24, 2023
• Canadian Physicians Satisfied With Work, Not Compensation Canadian physicians said that their work is rewarding but acknowledge challenges, including long hours, staffing problems, too many rules and regulations, and too little compensation for their efforts.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, August 23, 2023
• Try a Little D.I.Y. Do we need to do a better job of preparing physicians for the realities of an increasingly challenging profession?
  MDedge, August 22, 2023
• Infographic: Where Physicians Find Their Friends Physicians tell what leads to compatibility with their friends (the importance of money, for example) and also reveal whether they develop opposite-sex or patient friendships easily.
  Medscape, August 22, 2023
• Infographic: How Physicians React to Their Tax Bill Physicians reveal their attitudes about what they pay in taxes, the job their paid preparer does, and how Congress treats American taxpayers.
  Medscape, August 18, 2023
• Racial Disparities in Compensation Among US Anesthesiologists This national survey revealed a significant pay disparity associated with race and ethnicity among anesthesiologists in the U.S.
  Anesthesia & Analgesia, August 04, 2023
• Medical Students' Perception of Orthopedics: A Career for Women? Orthopedic surgery continues to lag behind other surgical specialties in female recruitment. Do medical students believe that women face barriers to entering the field of orthopedic surgery?
  Southern Medical Journal, August 03, 2023