We know implicitly that patient satisfaction survey scores are biased against women.

I am a Jew and a physician who specializes in psychiatry. I couldn’t help but notice in reading the coverage of the “Hannukah Stabber” in almost every news o...

America is far from a perfect country. The history that set the foundation of this nation is on one hand its greatest challenge to overcome, and on the other...

Our profession as physicians is in crisis, but “human rights violations” and “moral injury” are inaccurate terms to use. It may be surprising to some that I...

Me and my “virtual” scribe — an actual person who seems to “virtually” to exist inside of a Jabra speaker on my desk and so subtlety that I forgot to mute a ...

JUNE 10, 2019 Language matters. The use of the word “provider” may seem innocuous, but it is significant both for patients and physicians. For patients, it h...

Our profession is in crisis, but “human rights violations” and “moral injury” are inaccurate terms to use.

Language matters. The use of the word “provider” may seem innocuous, but it is significant both for patients and physicians.

A swimming pool. Most of a Tesla. Not nearly enough to have your kid swapped out during their sham SAT test. Nor would an ICU bill for a stay that resulted i...

A swimming pool. Most of a Tesla. Not nearly enough to have your kid swapped out during their sham SAT test. Nor would an ICU bill for a stay that resulted i...

I hear many comments and genuine inquiries about being a physician in a prison.  They’re all well-meaning yet hint at how little is known about this world on...

A male physician — one who sits on multiple committees at a large hospital in Dallas — was recently quoted in the Dallas Medical Journal, that female physici...

Recently, a form showed up on my desk to sign, approval for something or other. Not uncommon, given my role at the time as a chief psychiatrist, I signed doz...

I’ve thought a great deal about what to say, if anything, about the two suicides recently of two people who were not merely celebrities in the TMZ sense, but...

As a female physician, I have made it this far mostly by downplaying any aspect of being a woman.

As a physician, I’ve been exposed many times to untimely death — whether intentional or due to a childhood cancer or a catastrophic accident

As formidable advocates for the practice of medicine, it makes sense for us to identify as what we are fundamentally: physicians.

I hear many comments and genuine inquiries about being a physician in a prison. They’re all well-meaning yet hint at how little is known.