Healthcare and medicine illustration concept shows a couple senior adult get advice from the doctor about how to take care themselves from illness to get healthy life.
A doctor at Cigna said her bosses pressured her to review patients’ cases too quickly. Cigna threatened to fire her.
Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors
The deaths of Dr. Ryan Fryman, Dr. Lorna Breen and so many other healthcare professionals represent a societal failure. Here’s what we’re doing about it.
A recent survey in JAMA Network Open reveals that physicians are taking little vacation time, despite rising burnout and declining professional fulfillment.
The Disposables turns medical waste into art highlighting burnout risks
The ongoing effort from the Disappearing Doctors campaign uses a series of unique portraits to open up a space to discuss the pressures that doctors face.
Dr. Geeta Nayyar, the former chief medical officer at AT&T and Salesforce, has published a book evaluating the state of medical misinformation in America.
Q&A: TikTok doc Austin Chiang on crafting the perfect patient message
MM+M spoke with TikTok physician influencer Austin Chiang at the HLTH 2023 conference in Las Vegas, where he offered some advice for physician influencers.
With its two doctors planning to retire, an Alabama town patches together health care options