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My Patient Was Only Eating 'Girl Dinner'

Jun 18, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Ashna Jain |Abraham Kim |Michaela Barry |Frances Mei Hardin

“She loves eating 'girl dinner' every night," my patient's mom proclaimed while rolling her eyes. I had asked if her 13-year-old was a picky eater at her annual well check. I was confused by what the mom meant until I remembered a recent TikTok that I had seen where a group of girls were eating nuts, popcorn, fruit, and chocolate for dinner with the words girl dinner in a sparkly font written across the video.
Physician Pay Appears Higher Than Ever. The Reality Is Much More Bleak

Jun 18, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Abraham Kim |Michaela Barry |Frances Mei Hardin |Lisa Belisle

Average nominal physician pay reached $414,347 in 2023, up nearly 6% from the prior year, according to Doximity's 2024 Physician Compensation Report. After factoring in inflation, however, physicians’ real income and actual purchasing power has hardly budged over the past seven years, when Doximity first started reporting on physician compensation.
Voices for physician mental health

Apr 29, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kim Downey |Frances Mei Hardin |Anthony Avellino |Steven Siegel

I’ve been honored and privileged to have had recent conversations with two courageous women: Betsy Gall and Pamela Marie Hobby. Pamela met a medical resident who changed the course of her life on October 28, 2019, and Betsy’s life was forever changed exactly one month later, on November 28, 2019. Betsy wrote a book to share her family’s story. The title grabbed Pamela immediately, as it aligned with what she was building with My Doctor’s Meds, whose mission is to help the healers.
Revitalize your medical practice: Embrace creativity!

Apr 27, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kim Downey |Frances Mei Hardin |Anthony Avellino |Thomas L. Amburn

“Creativity is intelligence having fun!”George Scialabba shared a variation of this quote in a 1984 Harvard Magazine article, though it is often attributed to Albert Einstein. National Creativity Day is coming up on May 30th. What does that have to do with being a doctor? Everything!Dr. Amy-Jo Farrow in the U.K. and Dr. Charity Hix in the U.S. speak to the importance of nurturing creativity in our lives. The demands and expectations placed upon physicians these days feel excessive.
How doctors can have successful crucial conversations

Feb 10, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Frances Mei Hardin

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How doctors can have successful crucial conversations

Feb 10, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Frances Mei Hardin |Kim Downey |Anthony Avellino |Megan McLaughlin

One thing that all those years of education, medical training, and textbook studying can never quite fully prepare us for as physicians is crucial conversations with our patients. There’s an element to mastering these conversations that comes with being an attending physician, bearing sole provider responsibility, and having them ourselves. They may start off clunky at first in early practice, but we hope to continually improve with time.
Skills for resident physicians to increase distress tolerance

Oct 5, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Frances Mei Hardin |Monique Tello |Lisa Chan |Peter Ubel

Picture yourself as a junior resident on morning rounds with a senior and a rotating intern. You’ve been up almost all night on call, and you’re almost at the end of the patient list. Your senior asks you about the next patient, and you stumble. You can’t find your notes, and you’re blanking on the answer. Your senior becomes impatient and starts to raise their voice. How do you react? If you’ve ever been a resident, you know what it’s like to feel distressed.
An unspoken truth about non-compete clauses in medicine

Mar 15, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Harry W. Severance |Allison L. Neitzel |Frances Mei Hardin |Michael McCarthy |Michael Mccarthy

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken on non-compete clauses and requested public comments on this issue for . In health care, the majority of physicians have become employees, and most practices are being bought out by hospitals and corporate entities.