Perusing the WSJ health blogs I came across this post: AMA Weighs Whether Docs Should Hang Up Their White Coats Apparently, one of the policy questions addressed at the recent annual AMA conference was whether doctors should forgo their white coats for infection control reasons. In Britain, ties, jewelry, and long sleeves have already been […]
WSJ: How Much Do Rookie Doctors Make? The Latest Scorecard
This headline was very catching as I wanted to know the answer myself. The truth is a lot of medical students, residents, and fellows don’t actually know how much their first real salary will be. We hear low numbers from our academic supervisors and for those of us in primary care we begin to wonder […]
The Practice of Financial Medicine
What’s that you say? You didn’t know about the specialty of financial medicine? Well neither did I until recently. No, this is not about President Obama’s plan for public health insurance. Although I do side with the American Medical Association in being skeptical of it I’m annoyed that their main bone of contention seems to […]
Rainy Day Reading
What else is there to do on a rainy day but read? Over on WSJ we learn 10 reasons doctors get burned out. It is written by a surgeon about surgeons but I think most other doctors will agree it rings true for them as well. Yet even though I agree with many of the […]
Swine Flu (H1N1 Influenza A)
Tune in to any media channel and you will be bombarded by news of a new and deadly influenza virus. When this started about a week ago, I was underwhelmed. I’m less underwhelmed now as I do believe this is something newsworthy, I’m just not alarmed or frightened as I know what flu truly is. […]
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