Americans’ newfound obsession with skin care has medical students flocking to this specialty. Dermatology has become highly competitive because of its desirable work-life balance, high salaries and minimal on-call hours.
As we prepare for a new administration and a new Congress, I've been thinking a lot about what I want our new leaders to know about our healthcare system and, more specifically, primary care. By understanding the field, its challenges, and its importance, the new administration can help give primary care the investment it needs.
Signs of frailty may signal future dementia more than a decade before cognitive symptoms occur, in new findings that may provide a potential opportunity to identify high-risk populations for targeted enrollment in clinical trials of dementia prevention and treatment.
Medicine is a calling -- a career filled with purpose. Why, then, would a promising young physician, one on track to be an ophthalmologist, take his own life? The loss of William West Jr. forces us to consider the role of health systems in staff well-being.
Medicare Advantage patients in the last year of life were far more likely to switch to traditional Medicare, shifting costs from insurers.
Nationally, 35.7% of physicians plan to leave their jobs in the next two years, but at Sutter Health, the turnover rate is only 2%.
If standard therapies don’t give relief to patients with refractory cough associated with interstitial lung disease, maybe a little poison could do the trick.
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