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3 overlooked ways to make your private practice more efficient

Conduct better team meetings, plan ahead for smoother patient visits and make prescription renewals a once-a-year task.

Private Practices
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Burnout’s mounting price tag: What it’s costing your organization

A conservative estimate puts the number at $7,600 annually for each physician in your practice, but the costs are more than just monetary.

Physician Health
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It takes a team to prevent doctor burnout. Meet the players.

When it comes to mitigating and preventing physician burnout, doctors cannot do it alone. Learn how a team-based approach can rise to the task.

Physician Health
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How to create a vibrant culture in your private practice

Private practice offers you a chance for real leadership and autonomy in medicine. Find out how to strengthen your leadership skills and achieve excellence in team-based care.

Private Practices
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Responding to patients’ bias: Know where to draw the line

There are limits to what physicians should be expected to tolerate when patients’ preferences express unjust bias. This is what physicians should know.

Ethics
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New branch in medicine's ivory tower: scholar of wellness

To establish a group of experts to help reduce physician burnout and improve well-being, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine created a new pathway. Find out more about their new program.

Physician Health
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Social determinants of health: What medical students need to know

Economic instability, poor housing and other social-economic factors influence health. The AMA is offering a new way for tomorrow’s physicians to understand and act on social determinants of health.

Health Equity
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4 skills from psychiatry that can improve end-of-life care

Helping patients express their values, concerns and preferences is vital in palliative care. Incorporating elements of psychiatric training can help.

Ethics
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7 complex words you shouldn’t include on your consent form

A study finds that less than 10% of cancer treatment consent forms meet the National Cancer Institute’s readability recommendation. The forms also commonly include these hard-to-understand words.

Ethics