Untreated stress amongst healthcare professionals can lead to a multitude of issues while prolonged stress can contribute to burnout. In order to ensure the safety of both clinicians and patients, effective and feasible interventions are needed for individuals and organizations.
Meeting public demand for an urgently needed effective medication quickly and safely during a pandemic involves difficult tradeoffs.
Burnout is on the rise among psychiatrists. Explore the driving factors behind this trend and learn key interventions to avoid its negative effects.
By connecting on a personal level, medical practices may have better results in getting patients to settle their accounts.
There could be another 134,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States by Dec. 1 if no new prevention measures are introduced, and the number of deaths could be much higher if rules are relaxed.
The authors note that about two-thirds of adults aged 70 years and older have clinically significant hearing loss, and consequently, physicians should assume older patients have at least mild hearing loss.
Hackers have penetrated healthcare providers’ computer systems to encrypt information and demand money for its release.
Physicians say prior authorization continues to interfere with patient care and can lead to adverse clinical consequences.
Both in-person and telemedicine-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy are effective treatments for chronic insomnia.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created substantial workplace and home anxiety among academic emergency medicine physicians.
