Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal
By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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Many people believe you can. But here’s what a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR)...
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Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there...
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An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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On the morning of the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, a tweet by CNN stated, “The White House...
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My research staff recently came across a paper that directly addressed this problem. As they say...
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“In addition to his tumor, the patient had hepatitis and cirrhosis. Was he a good candidate?...
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Last month the Joint Commission issued a statement written by its Executive VP for Healthcare...
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An infectious disease fellow at the Harvard Medical School is convinced that white coats are...
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interesting situation occurring in New York...
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Here’s another reason to take online physician ratings with several grains of salt Below is...
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Here’s what Jane E. Brody, New York Times Personal Health columnist, had to say about surgeons who...
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An epidemic is sweeping the country, and no one is doing anything about it. No it’s not Zika...
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February’s Internet sensation, at least where I hang out, was Malachi Love-Robinson, the...
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A newborn in Tennessee had an operation to correct a “tongue tie.” Except for the...
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Patients had no greater risk of death or serious morbidity when cared for by surgical residents...
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Almost every day for the last few years, someone is writing about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in medical school. A recent paper featured drawings that medical students had done depicting faculty as...
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Last month, a three-judge panel granted English surgeon David Sellu the right to appeal his...
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The Leapfrog Group has announced its annual list of America’s top hospitals for quality and safety...
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It comes as no shock to me, and probably many other current and former program directors, that a recent study showed faculty overall performance evaluations of residents do not correlate with their scores on the yearly American...
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