Is It Chronic Pain or Drug-Seeking Behavior?
Current healthcare headlines frequently contain two words: opioid epidemic. As VOX recently reported, the number of opioid use disorder diagnoses has grown by nearly eight times the rate of the most effective t...
Mental Exercise Sharpens Gray Matter
Whether training on new equipment, studying for an additional certification or sharpening your focus at work, shaking up your ever...
Managing Mental Health in Primary Care
With more than 25 years as a clinical psychologist, Margaret Backman, Ph.D., formerly of New York City, remembers getting a referr...
The Importance of Patient Engagement: Better Health, Better Outcomes
Patient engagement improves health outcomes. It does, however, require the patient to participate, to care or to “be engaged...
At Risk for Burnout? Check These 5 Warning Signs
Providing healthcare to others takes a lot of energy: physical, intellectual and emotional. It can be enormously rewarding to be a...
Psychiatry’s Role in the Opioid Crisis: What Should It Be?
The opioid public health crisis continues to make headlines but contrary to prevalent thinking, it’s not new. From 1999 to 2...
5 Most In-Demand Medical Specialties
One of the factors that medical students should consider when choosing their medical specialty is how plentiful doctor jobs are in...
Emergency Medicine Practice Models: One Is Just Right for You
Choice is good and emergency medicine physicians have plenty of it when it comes to practice models and work environments. Here...
9 Steps to a Career-Enhancing PA Contract
How healthy and career-enhancing is your employment contract? At its best, a PA employment contract offers not only important prot...
5 Soft Skills Employers Seek in Nurse Practitioners
A nurse practitioner has the ability to practice in the same way as a physician, but this may vary slightly from state to state. A...
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