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AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students.

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Don’t get stumped when patients ask for nutrition advice

With the new year, patients resolving to eat more healthfully will be asking for physicians’ help. New training gives you tools to help them succeed.

Public Health
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Investing in physicians’ well-being is just good business

Physician burnout costs organizations real money, but relatively modest financial investments to improve work environments can boost the bottom line.

Physician Health
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Ethics module helps doctors navigate efforts to boost organ donation

The interactive tool identifies efforts to increase donation, describes key ethical considerations and shows physicians ways to apply the ethical principles.

Ethics
#Best of 2017 Reinventing Burnout
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Physician well-being again a burning topic in 2017

Burnout has received growing attention, with more health care organizations starting to find solutions that address problem’s system-level causes. 

Physician Health
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Informed consent: How do physicians frame the discussion?

A new e-learning module on informed consent tells physicians what they need to know about this essential discussion with patients or surrogates.

Ethics
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Identifying, treating prediabetes is key to healthier nation

Diabetes care should start with diabetes prevention. Find out more about the resources now available to help stave off the condition in at-risk patients.

Diabetes
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AMA: Eliminate burdens for controlled substances’ e-prescribing

Delegates also push for effective opioid-use disorder in jails and prisons and emergency naloxone in public settings.

Interim Meeting
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9 organizational changes that lead to physician satisfaction

Health care organizations can cut burnout’s costs by creating cultures of wellness, improving practice efficiency and supporting self-care.

Sustainability
Marie T. Brown, MD, and team, an internal medicine specialist at Rush University Medical Center.
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7 MIN READ

Teamwork, empathic approach help clinic double vaccination rate

With flu season getting underway, find out how this Midwestern primary care practice mastered the task of adult immunization.

Public Health