Health Regulations: Breaking the Rules
As a doctor, do you ever feel like certain health regulations or rules at the facility where you’re working prevent you from providing the best care for your patients? It can be frustrating to not be able to do something for your patient just because the powers that be tell you that you can’t – especially when deep down you know that it would be harmless. For example, perhaps a husband is sitting quietly next to his wife’s bed,...
Open-Label Placebos | Mind Over Matter?
As far as medicine goes, placebos are objectively the most useless prescriptions in regard to their active ingredients…being none whatsoever. Still, these “sugar pills” as they’re known somehow create noticeable, positive health effects in patients. Conventional perspectives would say it’s the thought of receiving treatment that actually makes the impact. Now, new research studies are showing how “open-label” placebos may actually...
The Death of the Doctor’s Oath?
Did you take the Hippocratic Oath when you graduated from medical school, and if so, what did the doctor’s oath mean to you? Do the words still apply to your physician job today? The Hippocratic Oath is an oath that physicians take when graduating medical school. The oath has them promise things such as to treat the sick to the best of their ability, preserve patient privacy and teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation....
Negotiating Physician Contracts 101
So medical school has finally come to its logical conclusion, your training is finished, and you’re finally ready to start your practice — so you’ll want to take the first job that comes your way, right? Wrong. Even though it’s tempting to jump at any opportunity to finally get working, there are things you’ll want to consider when negotiating physician contracts in 2017 and beyond. Tips for Negotiating Physician Contracts Firstly,...
Information on Zika Virus for Locum Tenens
It is almost summertime again, which means those pesky mosquitoes are back. No matter where in the U.S. you are working a locum tenens job, you most likely will have patients asking for information on Zika Virus – possibly because they heard about it again on the news and are curious, or because they are traveling somewhere where there’s a high risk of being exposed to the virus. Either way, as a health care provider, it’s important...