I’d rather be a sex worker than practice medicine in this broken system (and I’m 53, menopausal, and retired from my hot years). Let me be clear: This is not a whimsical “maybe I will pivot into OnlyFans” moment. I am 53 years old.
Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children’s Hospital has spent the last 26 years flying its specialty physicians and nurses to meet patients at clinics.
A long-awaited Medicare add-on billing code not only boosted pay for primary care physicians but also helped specialists, researchers found in a new study that’s likely to reignite debate over whether the code is working as intended.
For years, the conversation about board certification has centered on fairness, cost, and evidence. But there is another consequence that gets far less attention: how these systems affect the supply of practicing physicians.
Less than 1% of physician residents or fellows are dismissed from their training programs, but there are trends in dismissals related to gender, race and specialty.
Every physician that tells a colleague or mentor that they want to go into private practice has at some point been given these lines: “Private practice is dead!” “There’s no money left in it.”
Dr. Alan Pao had a patient years ago with recurring, debilitating kidney stones that due to their chemical makeup were essentially unpreventable. He recalled telling the man once that he was sorry, but there were no options that wouldn’t make his condition worse.
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