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What Your Doctor’s Really Thinking (But Won’t Say to Your Face)
Your doctor strides into the room, a stethoscope draped around her neck. In the course of the visit, she places the end of the stethoscope on your chest, closes her eyes, and listens intently to your heart. You assume your physician is gathering important information.
What you don’t know is that this is more ritual than diagnostic tool. Yes, the heart sounds are a potential rich source of information about the functioning of the heart—it’s just that there is little evidence that most doctors get much out of listening.
There are a few master clinicians, steeped in the art of auscultation, who pride themselves on their ability to hear subtle heart sounds and make remarkable…
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Physician Support Line
Physician Support Line is a national, free, and confidential support line service made up of 600+ volunteer psychiatrists, joined together in the determined hope to provide peer support for our physician colleagues and American medical students as we all navigate the COVID-19 epidemic.
theMednet
A physician-only Q&A platform for expert answers to real world clinical situations.
Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic
Thousands of medical practices are closing, as doctors and nurses decide to retire early or shift to less intense jobs.
It’s Time to Get Rid of the Stethoscope
Your doctor strides into the room, a stethoscope draped around her neck. In the course of the visit, she places the end of the stethoscope on your chest, closes her eyes, and listens intently to your heart. You assume your physician is gathering important information. What you don’t know is that this is more ritual than diagnostic tool.
Time to Revisit Medical Education ... and Not Just for Physicians
Do docs spend too much time in school, or do NPs and PAs not spend enough?
Time To Stop Labeling Physicians As Providers
The term can be quite demoralizing for doctors too, and you don't want a demoralized doctor, which unfortunately is becoming increasingly common, as I have written previously for Forbes. That would be like wanting a demoralized pilot steering your plane, a demoralized CEO running your company, or a lawyer defending you in court and saying "whatever, I don't care, I'm tired."
Training the Next Generation of Doctors and Nurses
In what looks like an urgent game of catch-up, medical and nursing schools across the country are retooling how and what they teach. This is also getting a boost from concern about the looming shortage of primary caregivers.
When Your ‘Regular Doctor’ Could Be Anyone
“Will you be my regular doctor?” a new patient seeing me in my primary care clinic asked. “Sort of,” I honestly answered.
The Challenge of Doctor-Patient Relations in the Internet Age
When it comes to health, I hope we can help the next generations understand that there isn’t always an app for that.
The Rise of the Social Media Doctor
Your doctor is probably using social media at some point in their day. Some people (many of my patients included) are often quite surprised when they hear me talk about being on Twitter, Instagram, or sometimes even just the Internet in general. Granted, being online wasn’t always typical for me. I used to shy away from it completely. In fact, I was worried that there was no place on social media at all for health care professionals like me.
I went $230,000 into debt to become a doctor in America
I am writing this letter because I feel that our leaders and lawmakers do not have an accurate picture of what it actually entails to become a physician today; specifically, the financial, intellectual, social, mental, and physical demands of the profession. This is an opinion that is shared among many of my colleagues.
Instagram for doctors: How one app is solving medical mysteries
A family-medicine doctor recent saw a 13-year-old with a weird, unidentifiable rash. It wasn't itchy or painful, and the teenage boy hadn't traveled anywhere recently. So the the doctor did what any modern physician would do: he took a photo and uploaded it to an Instagram-style app called Figure 1.
A step-by-step guide from doctors to getting the most out of your next visit
Here’s the thing about going to the doctor: It’s never going to be a great time. Yet it doesn’t have to be terrible.
Big Money’s Sway Over Doctors
Even well-meaning physicians often make medical decisions based on financial factors. There’s a better way.
Changing the culture of American Medicine — Start by removing hubris
This may be the most important post I have ever published. I’m going to tell you about a study that should change the entire way doctors approach patients, and how patients should think of prescribed treatments. These findings should begin a culture change in American medicine.
Doctor, Doctor, Where Art Thou?
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died - Erma Bombeck
Doctor? No.
I generally like to be respectful of people. Toward this end, I try my best to address people properly. You’ll find that I’m pretty liberal in using “Dr.” when addressing letters and e-mails, because you never know when someone is going to get upset at being called “Mister”. In contrast, few people seem to get upset at being called a doctor when they are not.
Doctors Could Use a Little Hypochondria
Why medical students panic too much and M.D.s too little.
Doctors Tell All—and It’s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis.
Giving New Doctors the Tools They Need
Medicine has long been a discipline predicated on memorization, which made sense in a world of textbooks, microscopes and information monopoly. But rooting medical training primarily in knowledge acquisition is increasingly insufficient and inefficient. In an era of big data, Google and iPhones, doctors don’t so much need to know as they need to access, synthesize and apply.
Health Care Myth Busters: Is There a High Degree of Scientific Certainty in Modern Medicine?
Only a fraction of what physicians do is based on solid evidence from Grade-A randomized, controlled trials; the rest is based instead on weak or no evidence and on subjective judgment. When scientific consensus exists on which clinical practices work effectively, physicians only sporadically follow that evidence correctly.
I Will Still Be Your Doctor
She was hospitalized because of the rapid accumulation of fluid resulting in marked swelling of her legs (edema) and abdomen (ascites). We can chart a course of treatment for illness, but we cannot force patients to adhere. The physician’s role is to assist and to accompany patients on their journey, while always trying to chart what is presumed to be the most appropriate medical course. A healer is not a parent and a patient is not a child. There is no place for paternalism in modern medicine.
Is It OK for Doctors to "Google" Patients?
A new paper lists 10 situations when it's justified including when docs have a duty to warn of possible harm, if a patient's story seem improbable or if there are suspicions of abuse or concerns of suicide risk.
License to Betray
A broken system forgives sexually abusive doctors in every state, investigation finds.
Medicine's Culture Of Quality And The Critical Steps Physicians Take To Ensure The Highest Level Of Care
It was Emerson who said that government is the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend. Few in medicine today would disagree.
Physicians must embrace the business side of medicine
If physicians wish to maintain our autonomy and professionalism, then we must embrace the importance and role of physician leaders. Physicians must lead and control hospital care.
Squeezing out the doctor
The role of physicians at the centre of health care is under pressure.
Thanks for the Compliment, But I'm Not a Nurse
Let’s get one thing clear from the start: I love nurses. My grandmother was a nurse’s aide. My aunt is a nurse. My mother is a nurse. Nurses have been by my side for the most frightening and important experiences in my life (in the hospital and out). But, I’m a doctor. So, please, don’t call me “nurse.”
What Doctors Aren't Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters
Physicians have gone from saints to sinners in the public’s eye, which is why the results of athenahealth’s ninth “Epocrates Future Physicians Of America Survey” don’t surprise me.
What Doctors Make
Variations in salary are drastic and opaque.
When Are Doctors Too Old to Practice?
Hospitals test older physicians on mental and physical acuity, raising questions of fairness, scientific validity and ageism.
When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.
When to Say No to Your Doctor
Every time you walk into a physician's office, you run the risk of overtreatment: Tests you don't need, medications that are ineffective (or dangerous), procedures that cause more problems than they solve. In many cases the best thing for your health is to do nothing.
Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession
American physicians are increasingly unhappy with their once-vaunted profession, and that malaise is bad for their patients.
What Your Doctor’s Really Thinking (But Won’t Say to Your Face)
Here's what your doctors would tell you if they weren't worried about time, lawsuits, or hurting your feelings.
Doximity
Doximity makes your life simpler.
Medstro
Medstro is built on the principle that you, your voice, and your relationships are the heart of Medstro. You build and change your own profile, create and join your own groups, your own discussions, and your own contests. The beauty of Medstro is in the dialogue and communication that you create with others and the discovery of new colleagues.
Sermo
Welcome to the only online community where physicians around the nation exchange the latest medical insights with each other and improve patient outcomes - 24/7.
BestBETs
BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is the clinical search engine that thinks and works the way you do, making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge.
Cochrane
Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions, published in The Cochrane Library.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
DailyRounds
We are a team of passionate doctors, developers & designers with a firm belief that a case-based, problem solving approach can revolutionize medical education. A problem solving approach would make medical education fun and at the same time can have direct impact on patient outcomes.
ddxof
ddxof: is a compilation of cases based on real patients, each inspiring an algorithm for the evaluation and management of their chief complaint or diagnosis.
GlobalRxPh
GlobalRPh.com was officially launched in December of 2000. This site is based on a hospital-wide intranet that is located at the VA Medical Center in Detroit Michigan. Several programs on this site are rated number one in the world based on search engine rankings.
JournalWATCH
To help physicians and allied health professionals save time and stay informed by providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice.
Larry Mellick
This channel is dedicated to teaching emergency medicine procedures and displaying unique and interesting medical conditions. This channel is only possible because my patients give permission for their stories to be told so that others might learn. I value this trust and will never take it for granted. And, even though I just recently began to monetize this channel, my vow to my patients and subscribers is that 100% of any money earned from these YouTube videos will be used to help the poor.
Martindale's Virtual Medical Center
Comprehensive resource covering the field of medicine.
MDCalc
This is a site for medical professionals to help us do calculations and process algorithms and scores. To make patients better. Faster. You can access the full list through the navigation bars, or, preferably, through the search menu.
MedHunt
Hon MedHunt promotes the effective and reliable use of the new technologies for telemedicine in healthcare around the world.
MedicineNet
MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles.
Medscape
Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile.
MedWorm
MedWorm collects updates from over 5000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds.
MPR
To provide medical professionals with the most up-to-date prescribing information in a concise, user-friendly format. The PRI database has been assembled and edited by an experienced staff of pharmacists utilizing information available from manufacturers, official compendia and medical/pharmaceutical references.
National Library of Medicine
The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.
Pepid
PEPID is the most comprehensive point-of-care resource available to healthcare professionals. With PEPID Online, you can access a wealth of clinical knowledge through your internet browser on any laptop or computer. PEPID offers individual subscriptions to PEPID Online as well as access for your entire institution or department.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
SimulConsult
Clinicians can get a "simultaneous consult" about their patient's diagnosis using SimulConsult's diagnostic decision support software.
TEDMED
TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital. Together, this encompasses more than twenty percent of our GNP in America while touching everyone's life around the globe.
The Knowledge Network
The Knowledge Network provides evidence, information, e-learning and community tools. It supports all staff to find, share and use knowledge in day to day work and learning.
The NNT
We are a group of physicians that have developed a framework and rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms as well as a system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study.
The University of Iowa Libraries
Find articles in scholarly journals and magazines with these databases and indexes.
TheVisualMD
Get the health facts you need.
Univadis
Your free portal to up-to-date unbiased medical news and information. Trusted by over 400,000 physicians in 33 countries since 2001, univadis is one of the most credible, professional, and comprehensive sources of online information for the medical community.
UpToDate
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to clinicians on the Web, desktop, and PDA. UpToDate is designed to get clinicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point-of-care.
AlmostaDoctor
almostadoctor is a place for medical professional and students to learn about stuff. It is run by Dr Tom Leach. In 2009, Tom saw a huddle of people around a photocopies in the Hospital Library. They were passing round copies of his notes. Ever since then, Tom has uploaded all of his notes, and encouraged his friends to do the same.
Authentic Medicine
Authentic Medicine is about connecting us back to the roots of medicine. This online “magazine” will constantly be updated with informative and challenging opinions and ideas. The goal is to fight back against those things that are taking us away from the direct care of patients while still pointing out the lunacy and hypocrisy of this job.
Cases Blog
Cases Blog contains a rich collection of "presurfed" material for busy clinicians and features interactivity and timely discussion.
Choosing Wisely
How can physicians and patients have the important conversations necessary to ensure the right care is delivered at the right time? Choosing Wisely® aims to answer that question. An initiative of the ABIM Foundation, Choosing Wisely is focused on encouraging physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders to think and talk about medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some instances can cause harm.
Clinical Care Options
CCO believes the way to optimize clinicians’ competence in providing the highest standards of evidence-based medicine is through effective education and the availability of the latest clinical information, whenever and wherever it is needed. CCO is dedicated to improving patient care by providing superior-quality, relevant educational content and clinical knowledge as delivered through its innovative and integrated online and mobile platforms, which provide comprehensive and personalized information solutions.
Clueless Doctors & Scientists
Collection of thoughts for a book to come. I now focus only on neuroscience and specifically on certain brain functions and irregularities as they relate to chronic pain.
ConsultantLive
ConsultantLive pulls together practical clinical advice from top experts in many specialties in a convenient source for primary care practitioners. The journal and Web site provide peer-reviewed articles on key topics encountered in clinical practice, as well as short, quick-reading features that emphasize diagnostic quizzes and color photography.
Diagnosis
Dr. Lisa Sanders recreates hard-to-solve medical case studies.
DocGuide.com
A comprehensive source of today's news and webcasts.
Doctorpreneurs
Our mission is to: Provide the next generation of medical entrepreneurs with the insight, network and opportunities to lead innovative improvement in healthcare.
Doctors for America
Doctors for America is a national movement of physicians and medical students working together to improve the health of the nation and to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, high quality health care.
Doctors.net.uk
Created by doctors for doctors, it is now the most popular, trusted medical channel enabling communication to and between 149,750 doctors, all day every day.
DoctorsLounge
Doctors Lounge is a large online network of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. Our members have written over 10,000 articles and answered more than 30,000 medical questions.
Expert Consult
Expert Consult is an online collection of best-selling reference titles across a wide range of medical and surgical specialties. Combining authoritative, world-class book content with full-search functionality and many additional online features, Expert Consult is one of the most efficient tools available to health care professionals today.
Future Medicine
Welcome to www.futuremedicine.com - your gateway to objective and authoritative information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering concise, forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues that confront us in modern healthcare. Future Medicine is part of the Future Science Group, an expanding group of independent companies active in the field of scientific information and endeavor.
HCPLive
HCPLive is the preeminent destination for physicians, pharmacists, managed care executives, and other healthcare professionals who are looking for tools, techniques, and information that can help them provide better care.
MD Whistleblower
I am a full time practicing physician and writer. I write about the joys and challenges of medical practice including controversies in the doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics and measuring medical quality. When I'm not writing, I'm performing colonoscopies. MD Whistleblower presents vignettes and commentaries on the medical profession. We peek 'behind the medical curtain' and deliver candor and controversy in every post.
MDedge
Keeping you informed. Saving you time.
MDExpress
We recognize that physicians have precious little time to obtain all the information they require. At the same time, a great deal of the information that physicians need - and much, much more - is available on the Internet.
MDLinx
MDLinx connects healthcare professionals and patients to tomorrow's medical knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and research solutions.
Medical Economics
Medical Economics is the best read primary care publication because it helps physicians stay in practice so they CAN practice. Medical Economics provides the critical education that doctors don’t get in medical school, focusing on the critical aspects of the Business of Health, Policy, Finances, Operations and Technology.
MedPage Today
MedPage Today is the only medical news service for physicians that links consumer medical news and the professional medical analysis needed by clinicians.
MomMD
Online Community and Association for Women in Medicine. A career site with professional and personal support for women M.D & D.O. physicians, residents, medical and premed students. Whether wondering how to become a doctor or already practicing, MomMD is for today's women in medicine.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
The MMWR weekly contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community.
Physician's Briefing
Professional medical news from HealthDay.
Physician's News Digest
PhysiciansNews.com is a leading online resource of news, information and features for doctors, health professionals and patients. We focus on practice management issues including business, finance, politics and technology in the healthcare industry.
Physician's Weekly
Physician's Weekly is your source for medical news, information on new drugs and devices, clinical updates.
Second Opinion
Ever wonder what doctors whisper about when you're not in the room? Find out each week on Second Opinion.
The Doctor's Channel
The Doctor’s Channel offers free video CME, medical news, and physician education. Featuring insights and opinions from experts in over 50 specialties, as well as community and lifestyle features that help doctors stay on top of the latest news, ideas and information.
The Doctors' Page
Welcome to The Doctors' Page, the web site specifically designed for the practicing physician. Here you'll find a wide range of resources for you and your patients, handpicked to fit your daily information needs.
The Medical Futurist
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD is the Medical Futurist. A geek physician with a PhD in genomics and Amazon Top 100 author, he envisions the impact of digital health technologies on the future of healthcare, and helps patients, doctors, government regulators and companies make it a reality.
What Doctors Don't Tell You
Since its launch all those years ago, What Doctors Don't Tell You has been acknowledged as one of the world's very best health newsletters by several commentators, including leading publisher and health campaigner Burton Goldberg, leading holistic healer Dr John Diamond and the Holistic Health Library.
Betty C. Jung's Website
This website provides a place where public health and healthcare professionals, and anyone interested, can find good quality information that exist on the World Wide Web.
BMJ Best Practice
In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach and covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. BMJ Best Practice gives medical professionals the best available information for any clinical situation. Regularly updated, it draws on the latest evidence-based research to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. BMJ Best Practice is your instant second opinion.
Bone & Joint
With Bone & Joint we make it easy for you to appraise the latest orthopaedic research from around the world, giving you a broad and deep perspective on changing knowledge and practice. As well as reading about it, you can interact with the information too — view videos, listen to podcasts, and earn CME points. Many of these tools are completely free to access.
Clot Connect
Clot Connect is an information and outreach project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center. Clot Connect provides patients and healthcare professionals connection to clinically relevant education resources on deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, thrombophilia and anticoagulation.
ECGpedia
A free electrocardiography (ECG) tutorial and textbook to which anyone can contribute, designed for medical professionals such as cardiac care nurses and physicians.
Family Practice Notebook
This notebook is intended to aid primary care providers in their pursuit of optimal care, well-informed patients, and healthy families.
FDA News
FDAnews is the premier provider of domestic and international regulatory, legislative and business news and information for executives in industries regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
HealthCare Business News
Every day, HCB News brings you the current events that are shaping healthcare and impacting providers. Whether it be newly published medical research, M&A activity, new FDA approvals or market analysis, our Daily News delivers all the biggest stories as they are unfolding.
Healthcare Finance
Healthcare Finance is the leading news source for developments in the healthcare finance industry. Through its highly integrated platform, its team of award-winning editors deliver breaking news, in-depth reporting, analysis and best practices around compelling topics such as capital investments,
HealthEconomics.com
Welcome to the HealthEconomics.Com website, for health outcomes research and health economics jobs and resources on the Internet.
Healthlinks
We provide links to health Services and Products, Alternative Health, Education, Dental and Medical Resources, Hospitals, Employment, Healthcare Publications, Mental Health and Much More!
In The Pipeline
Derek Lowe's commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine.
Lab Tests Online
Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.
LearningRadiology.com
The website ranks #1 on Google for "learning radiology." There are thousands of links to material on this site from Google alone including hundreds of university programs in radiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, physician assistant, emergency medical technician and radiologic technologist programs.
Medgadget
Medgadget is an independent journal of the latest medical gadgets, technologies and discoveries. Our website is written, edited and published by a group of MDs and biomed engineers.
Medical Device Guru
Forum for health care professionals covering daily medical device news and jobs in the medical device industry.
Medical Ecology
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Ophthalmology News
The Editorial Boards of SLACK Incorporated publications have come together to ensure clinical accuracy and relevance in all articles on the OSN SuperSite. Representing the global ophthalmic community, our Editorial Board members peer-review content for our ophthalmic journals, and contribute editorial columns and content direction from all regions of the world.
Orthopedics News
Comprehensive website covering the field of orthopedics.
PediatricEducation.org
PediatricEducation.org is a Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education.
Practicing Physicians of America
PPA’s goal is to assist you in developing the resources you need to care for yourself – so that you can care for your patients.
Radiology Assistant
Welcome to the Radiology Assistant...The Educational site of the Radiological Society of the Netherlands.
U.S. Medicine
U.S. Medicine is a monthly publication that serves healthcare professionals working in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and U.S. Public Health Service. Each month U.S. Medicine provides 35,000 physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and administrators with a mix of news, medical updates, interviews, reports on special government topics and monthly columns.
Wonca
WONCA is an unusual, yet convenient acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians. WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors.
MashupMD
MashupMD is a new medical platform that links specialists with the social media conversations going on in their fields
Introducing Stitches!
Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
