I am lucky: I was able to change my general internal medicine practice from near its very beginning, when I realized that I was not cut out to see 20 patients per day and keep up with documentation, on-call schedules and quota demands from payers and administration all at [...]
The revealing WSJ piece “Checking Up on the Doctor: What Patients Can Learn From the Ways Physicians Take Care of Themselves” revealed not much, at all. And that’s really sad. Because although doctors smoke only 10% as much as the general public, we are just as obese, more stressed [...]