Commit to a conversation about the gender pay gap

Physician
March 7, 2018

The gender pay gap is a hot-button issue among women physicians. A few years ago at a local women physicians group meeting, I listened in awe as a gynecologist discussed interviewing for a job early in her career. She and her male co-resident were under consideration for the same position. Upon touching base with her colleague after the interview, she realized he was offered significantly more: on the order of …

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Commit to a conversation about the gender pay gap

This doctor doesn’t go to patients’ memorial services

Physician
February 12, 2018

Patients and their family members are impressed when doctors show up for memorial services. They tell me about it. “The doctor liked my mother so much that he came to her wake,” a patient recently confided in me as I examined her. She had been a sole caregiver for her aging parents for years, and her mother had passed a few months earlier. The physician’s presence at her mother’s service …

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This doctor doesn’t go to patients’ memorial services

This doctor isn’t burned out. Here’s her advice.

Physician
November 8, 2017

Recently, I took a few minutes to fill out a survey on physician burnout.   A slew of studies offer estimates of physician burnout of up to 50 percent.  In my field of primary care, the documentation and regulatory burdens may cause the number to soar even higher.

I am rounding out my fifth year in a busy suburban private practice and I am not burned out.  These questions moved me to …

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This doctor isn’t burned out. Here’s her advice.