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Hospital CEO “Cut!” After Participating In Surgery

September 22, 2020
Marketing Research, Physician Mindset, Physician Stakeholders

Yes, you read that title correctly! And no, the CEO was not an MD!!! Check this out. What you will see is one of the more bizarre stories you will encounter this week. Guaranteed! Here’s the deal. For some inexplicable reason, the CEO of a...

Lessons Learned on Covid-19s Front Lines

September 2, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see is a fascinating 5-minute conversation between the head of Infectious Disease and the Epidemiologist from Montefiore and Einstein hospitals in New York. These two institutions were at the epicenter of the pandemic’s first...

Surgeons On Hold

August 27, 2020
Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see is a major mea culpa from the American Board of Surgery. In July of 2020, the Board understandably attempted to move its qualifying exam for new surgeons who were “board eligible” from a live testing center to a virtual platform....

Frankly, I Don’t Care What Your Cardiologist Says!!!

August 5, 2020
Physician Mindset, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see is a riff by a Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist on “stuff” he doesn’t want to hear from a patient prior to surgery. For example, this doctor believes that he is more than capable of evaluating a patient’s operative and postoperative...

Covid-19 And A Doctor’s Suicide

July 30, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Stakeholders, Physician Suicide

I am guessing that you all know this story by now. The story about the New York E.R. physician, Dr. Lorna Breen, pictured above. The story of how she was in charge of the E.R. in one of the most devastating epicenters of COVID-19 in N.Y.C. during the most devastating...

What A Female Physician Has Learned About Being A Female Physician

July 21, 2020
Physician Mindset, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see is a list of 10 key lessons this doctor has learned about how to survive as a female attending physician. Probably the most significant of these is “Lesson 4. Female resentment is real.” So how does she deal with that? By remembering...

Covid-19’s Impact on Primary Care

July 15, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see are the results of a study done early in the course of the pandemic. Even in late March, about half of Primary Care practices were reporting “severe impact” (negative) resulting from the spread of COVID-19. Go...

Just Keep Piling It On!!!

June 24, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Burnout, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. While you will see is a sobering, if not surprising, comment on what is happening to medical residents as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Residency has never exactly been a piece of cake, with guidelines in the U.S. being required to...

It’s Okay To Suck

May 20, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Stakeholders, Physician Suicide

Check this out. What you will see is a light but important blog by a physician who feels that it is important to distribute uplifting messages to colleagues in the profession. In this post, the message is that while it is obviously important for an ER doctor not to...

Doctors’ Disappearing Incomes

May 19, 2020
COVID-19, Physician Stakeholders

Check this out. What you will see is a very alarming article. Alarming why? Alarming because it describes the myriad financial problems that physicians, and hospitals and healthcare systems as well, are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis....