She never saw herself as a leader, and she was quiet and shy, yet she became a chief medical officer. Vidhya Prakash is an internal medicine physician and chief medical officer at SIU Medicine. This ...

Almost 50 years into practice, a cardiologist says American health care is getting worse by the day. Peter R. Kowey specializes in heart rhythm disorders and ran a cardiology division for 25 years.

If every physician in your organization woke up tomorrow with complete financial freedom, how many would still choose to stay? It is a simple question, but the answer could reveal more about your ...

The office chairs most of us sit in all day have little science behind them, and the popular fixes may not be much better. Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist. This episode is based on ...

Many doctors who run their own practices spend hours on work someone else could do. One practice owner who charges $300 an hour was his own receptionist, verifying insurance all night and stepping ...

The words you put in a patient’s chart can be used to deny their disability claim. A note that says “stable” or “improved” can mean one thing to you and another to the insurer. Jennifer Hess, an ERISA ...

As a PharmD student in Ghana, I entered clinical practice thinking that being prepared meant knowing my drugs well. I studied mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, interactions, and ...

Shortly after graduating from my emergency medicine training, I reread The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I didn’t expect a dystopian novel to follow me into the emergency department, but it did.

In pediatric oncology, nutrition is often reduced to a simple question: Is the child eating enough? In practice, it is rarely that straightforward. During intensive cancer treatment, appetite, ...

As physicians head to the polls, we are afraid for our patients and our profession. We are in a moment of extraordinary turbulence. Administrative overload, political intrusion into clinical care, ...