Opinion | Questions You Should Be Asking About How Your Physician Group Works
Pines and Aldeen are emergency medicine physicians and leaders of a physician-owned emergency medicine group. Emergency physicians experience burnout at three times the rate of the average doctor. A common refrain underlying this is that corporatization by so-called contract management groups (CMGs) interferes with the physician-patient relationship and erodes the specialty. Acerbic posts in the […]
Opinion | Want to Solve the Nurse Shortage?
John Heymach, RN, and Caleb Skyles, RN, are registered nurses and leaders at a healthcare staffing agency. We are registered nurses, and we work to place nurses in hospitals where they’re needed every single day. These tough, selfless healthcare professionals deal with exceptional challenges to provide the best care possible for patients. They love the […]
Feel Discouraged About… Everything? Here’s How Activists Keep Their Spirits Up
John Lamparski via Getty Images “I draw inspiration from the countless activists, leaders and trailblazers who have dedicated their lives to fighting for justice, even when it seemed impossible, in the generations before us,” said Kevin Patel, pictured at a climate strike in September 2022 in New York City. It can feel overwhelming and draining […]
ACOG Responds to Clashing Abortion Pill Rulings
Leaders of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and legal experts weighed in on the implications of a federal judge’s decision to suspend the FDA’s decades-old approval of mifepristone (Mifeprex), the most commonly used drug for medication abortion nationwide. “Please understand that this judge’s decision does not mean that medication abortion is not […]
Opinion | Ashish Jha on the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
This video is part of an ongoing series of interviews with government leaders in healthcare. In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator for the Biden administration, discuss the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) in May and what that […]
Tackling the Global Burden of Liver Cancer
MedPage Today brought together three leaders in the field of liver cancer to discuss the latest research and clinical advances. In this last of four exclusive episodes, moderator Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is joined by Amit Singal, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, […]
Hospital Responds to Staffing Crisis After Reports of Patient Death
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett in Washington state is responding to local leaders’ concerns about nurse staffing levels and reports of a recent patient death outside the emergency department (ED) earlier this month. Several days after the patient reportedly died in the ED waiting area, the Snohomish County Council and Everett City Council sent a […]
ACOs Fight Looming Cuts, Privatization Rhetoric
WASHINGTON — CMS officials responded to concerns from accountable care organization (ACO) leaders about growth, a substantial pending payment cut, and ideological opposition, speaking at the meeting of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) here last week. During a question-and-answer session with CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, NAACOS CEO Clif Gaus, ScD, said the administration’s goal […]
Opinion | A BA.2 Surge Could Wreak Unequal Havoc
Weeks after political leaders and media elites put the U.S. on a course to “return to normalcy,” the country finds itself again contending with an uptick in cases fueled by the highly transmissible BA.2 Omicron subvariant and the ending of public health measures. Some regions and cities, like Washington, D.C. and New York, are seeing […]
How you speak up at work can affect whether you’re picked for a team
Business leaders and management experts often encourage people to speak up in the workplace. Suggesting a creative idea or a more efficient way to work can help companies overcome challenges and meet goals. But new research shows another, more subtle and often overlooked form of speaking up has a big effect on the way work […]