by Michael Sopher | Apr 27, 2018 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Work-Life Balance
Whether to avoid burnout or gain new skills, more doctors are opting for temporary staff jobs Doctor burnout is at an all-time high, and many parts of the country are experiencing provider shortages. Is locum tenens—filling a temporary position in a health care...
by Rachel Bishop | Feb 23, 2018 | Work-Life Balance
High rates of suicide in medicine call for awareness and action Last December, the world was shocked when a young surgeon in Texas shot and killed his two young children and then himself. His family acknowledged in a painfully honest obituary that after years of...
by Smitha Gopal | Nov 22, 2017 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls, Work-Life Balance
As burnout rates and doctor shortages rise, work-life balance issues affect everyone in medicine We would not praise our patients for working long hours, sacrificing sleep, and prioritizing everything else over their own health. Yet that’s exactly what many doctors...
by Michael Sopher | Feb 8, 2017 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls
The number-one most talked about blog post of 2016, according to Medical Economics, was about how more young doctors are jumping ship to non-clinical roles. “[A]n increasing proportion of the roughly 100,000 doctors in medical school today do not intend to treat...
by Brad Sopher | Nov 8, 2016 | Relating to Your Patients, Work-Life Balance
As a doctor, your patients’ health is your top priority. You educate your patients on the fact that chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and obesity are the leading causes of death and disease in this country. You teach patients...
