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Mashup Score: 0Advice for the hospitalist caring for a patient after delirium in the post-anesthesia care unit - 11 month(s) ago
Hospitalists should reassure and educate patients and families about PACU delirium, while optimizing postoperative care through evidence-based measures.
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Mashup Score: 1Physician employment contracts: the key to fighting burnout and improving working conditions [PODCAST] - 11 month(s) ago
Join us on this insightful podcast episode as we delve into the pressing issue of physician burnout and the challenges physicians face in their careers. Our guest, Dennis Hursh, a veteran attorney with over 40 years of experience in health law, sheds light on the topic.
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Mashup Score: 0Breaking free from restrictive covenants to combat burnout - 11 month(s) ago
Hospitals need to prioritize physician well-being and eliminate restrictive covenants in contracts to address burnout and ensure a healthier medical community.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2A physician’s typical day, as envisioned by a non-clinician health care MBA: a satire - 11 month(s) ago
My alarm goes off at 3:30 a.m. for early charting, loving these pre-work hours despite being unpaid and having trained my need for sleep out of me, wiping away my resistance to admin tasks. Meanwhile, absorbed in the EHR, I can’t look away from my screen, missing out on family moments as I exist solely to serve the system, strangely content.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1
Coaching can be an incredibly beneficial tool to help physicians examine challenges they face in professional and personal life and change their thoughts to change their lives, as exemplified by a late-career female physical therapist who received powerful coaching from a younger, mid-career male physician coach.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Family physicians unite at the U.S. Capitol, seeking congressional support for Medicare reform and health care transformation - 12 month(s) ago
Family physicians and future physicians gather at the U.S. Capitol, sharing challenges and requesting leaders’ investment in primary care, backed by their hard work, dedication, and contribution to health care, emphasizing the need for Medicare payment reform, reduced administrative burden, and support for the primary care workforce.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1How electronic health records preserve patients' legacies in the words of oncologists - 12 month(s) ago
As an oncologist working late hours, the electronic health record not only contributes to my burnout but also serves as a vault of patients’ stories, memories, and legacies that endure even after their passing.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0U.S. maternal death rate keeps climbing: Understanding root causes can help reduce maternal mortality - 12 month(s) ago
Let’s reflect on reducing maternal mortality this Mother’s Day, as the U.S. sees an 89% increase since 2018, with racial and ethnic disparities contributing to the issue.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Anesthesiology, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2The inherent problems with emergency medicine that make it contradict new values and behaviors - 1 year(s) ago
The unfilled match spots in this year’s emergency medicine residency match are due to temporal issues that will change with market forces and supply/demand, and inherent problems with the specialty as conceived and implemented, making emergency medicine contradictory to many new values and behaviors.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Breakthrough trial shows MRI-guided radiation can reduce prostate cancer treatment toxicity - 1 year(s) ago
MR-LINACs reduce toxicity in prostate cancer radiotherapy, as demonstrated by the MIRAGE trial, by allowing for a tighter margin around the prostate using MRI-guidance instead of CT-guidance.
Source: KevinMD.comCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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