I've been reading the many Doximity, Medscape and Kevin, M.D. posts that I receive in my email daily. I read about 'burnout' and depression, about anger at the Maintenance of Certification process, the debate about payment models. I read about the daily struggles with insurance companies (prior authorizations and pre-certifications, and about daily struggles with EMR's (physician overload from logging data and excessive 'clicks' and difficulty maintaining human contact with

I am writing a Valentine's Day post. It's not about my husband, who I love dearly. Sorry, Larry. It's about me- and self-love. It's been nearly 8 months since I left my academic medicine position, and primary care medicine, the job in which I finally crashed and burned after practicing medicine for decades. And I am happy to report that I feel I am finally 'recovered'. I was considering whether I could say that, since I don't like the whole 'burnout' concept in medicine,

The rate of uninsured patients in our country is up, the highest it has been since the beginning of 2014, when the Affordable Care Act first mandated individual insurance coverage. Like many of you, I am very worried about this. I'm not surprised, as every time I see patients, I encounter a few, even in the generally affluent area where I practice, who have no insurance. Many of these patients are young adults, in their late 20s and early 30s. While those patients are les