Hospital employment was once billed as the solution to the headaches of private practice — a…
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The cost of ending shadowing in medical education
A faculty-wide email recently announced that shadowing in our emergency department would no longer be recognized…
The hidden cost of professionalism in medical training
I sat in my pink childhood bed, my name still written in cursive above it from…
Rethinking physician resilience for sustainable well-being
Personal resilience is one of the three core components of the Stanford model of physician professional…
Why enterprise risk management is key to value-based health care success
The evolving contemporary era of value-based health care (VBHC) demands new risk leadership. VBHC emphasizes quality,…
Why telling kids to eat less and move more fails to address obesity
Despite decades of public health messaging urging children to “eat less and move more,” rates of…
How shared language saved a patient from isolation
I was midway through a busy afternoon clinic when my pager erupted—an inpatient consult request. The…
High blood pressure’s hidden impact on kidney health in older adults
Most people think of high blood pressure as a silent threat to the heart. But it’s…
Clinical ghosts and why they haunt our exam rooms
As a quadruple board-certified physician and a patient with a complex autoimmune disease, I live on…
The shocking risk every smart student faces when applying to medical school
The threats we face throughout our medical practice years are rarely published in the world medical…