You know those times in your life when you’re just feeling… stressed? You’re on the edge; you have no chill; everything just sort of gets to you. If you can step away from the anxiety for a moment, you might ask yourself where it’s all coming from.
I distinctly remember one Tuesday morning during the second half of my first year of ophthalmology residency in 2014. It was 6 a.m., and I was hysterically crying while standing in my kitchen, holding a pair of scissors to my hair.
Amid shrinking reimbursement rates and growing frustrations with administrative burdens, more physicians are turning to cash-only or direct primary care models.
Eight percent, or about 72,000, of physicians are unionized, and the number of official union drives among private-sector physicians has leaped in the past two years.
A classroom-style treatment teaches patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other illnesses to carry on their lives despite hallucinations and imagined voices
Working as an emergency physician can be demanding. It’s also dangerous. In a 2022 study, two thirds of emergency physicians were assaulted in the past 12 months, and one third of those assaults resulted in an injury.
Dory ‘Braylan’ Hux was a competitive middle-school soccer player from North Carolina with vigilant parents who started putting Neutrogena sunscreen on their freckle-faced son at a young age to protect his skin.
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