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I devoted an entire column to the idea of a citizenship bonus in November 2011. At that time I expressed some ambivalence about its …Read More

Not long ago, I had a conversation with a good friend who is the hospitalist medical director for a five-hospital health system in the …Read More

Last month, I wrote a letter to hospital executives, urging them to deliberately invest their own personal time and effort in fostering hospitalist wellbeing. …Read More

I’m often asked about effective roles for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), collectively known as advanced practice clinicians (APCs). My first response …Read More

While in medical school, I learned about what was then called GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) and we now know as HIV/AIDS. I thought this …Read More

Dear Hospital Executive,

If you are like many of the hospital leaders with whom I regularly talk, you’re probably concerned that your hospitalist program isn’t …Read More

I first became aware of measuring customer satisfaction when a service manager at a car dealership explained in an upbeat way that I would …Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has too many new payment models for a practicing doctor to keep up with them all. …Read More

I’ve been writing a lot about hospitalist satisfaction and career sustainability, but a just-released report from The Physicians Foundation shows just how widespread low …Read More