In addition to blogging on a regular basis, I am a practicing family physician. I work in an urgent care clinic as medical director and clinician. As I arriv [...]

Office email had become a major aggravation for me. Along with the occasional helpful or important message, I was wading through dozens of useless and bother [...]

Employed physicians are very concerned with their contracts and compensation. What sometimes seems like a legal formality to employers, is a document (employ [...]

I have found that volunteering in various community activities can provide meaningful lessons for physician leaders. I think it is especially useful to work [...]

When I first joined the executive team at my hospital as its VPMA (vice president for medical affairs), little did I know that conflict would become a welcom [...]

As physicians, we easily fall into the trap of blaming outside influences (e.g., insurance companies, regulators and big hospital systems) for our daily frus [...]