Health Costs in the USA
What does the Inverted Pyramid mean?

A recent report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) confirmed health costs distribution across the patient spectrum first reported in 1996 that are mind boggling and – at the same time – not unexpected by practicing physicians.

Empathy Creates Measurably Better Outcomes

How Doctors Die

“How doctors die” is an illuminating article published in late 2011 by Ken Murray, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC. This is a MUST READ for all physicians and physicians in training.

“Our power to heal is far less limited
than our power to cure. Healing is not
a relationship between an expert and a
problem … it is a relationship between
human beings”

Empathy Fatigue – Is More Compassion the Cure?

Physician Burnout Symptoms

When it comes to physician burnout, the odds are stacked against us. We do whatever it takes to survive medical school and residency, but survival skills don't provide a decent quality of life.

They only allow us to squeak by. Burnout symptoms are not obvious to the burnout sufferer, so let's talk about the symptoms of burnout for just a second.

Physician Careers – The New Rules