Overview A hospitalist is a physician who works primarily in the hospital serving acutely ill patients. The term was first coined in 1996 by a couple of doctors writing in the New England Journal of...
Concierge medicine is a growing style of practice in healthcare in which a patient pays an annual fee to their doctor. This could be $199, $500, $1500; or it could be more, could be less. Wi...
Last Saturday, a group of us went out for an evening theatre. I was really excited for it actually. Maybe because I’m just a medical geek. Out of the four of us in the group, three had medic...
Many medical specialties do fellowships to further sub-specialize their training often leading to increased compensation packages. Sometimes there is just an extra sense of satisfaction becoming an ...
Call is something that many physicians do. It’s the wonderful time period when a physician’s office is closed for the day. Patients sometimes need medical care during these off hours be...
The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article titled, “Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers.” The premise of the research is to determine wh...
f you haven’t heard, the University of Texas at Austin is building a new medical school. It will be the first medical school in Austin, a place that is well known for it’s research. Ov...
hat is a University Health Physician? These are the physicians that work at universities serving the medical needs of that university’s student body. The majority of the patient population wo...
elow are the top seven highest earning academic physicians at the University of California, San Francisco. Figures were reported in 2008 and made public here due to the Freedom of Information Act. Y...
ruises are a popular vacation past-time for everyone across the globe. You’re in the middle of the ocean with nothing in sight, you sit back, relax and eat, while the ship goes to different co...