Kara Miller

Feb 3, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Kara Miller

There was a time when Amy Fogelman couldn’t imagine leaving medicine. For nearly ten years, she worked part-time as a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She loved her patients. They trusted her. They shared inside jokes. On the side, she helped teach residents and served on committees to fix problems she saw in the system. But her part-time job demanded more than 40 hours a week. She was meticulous about writing detailed patient notes.

Jan 14, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Kara Miller

If you were a college-educated woman in 1960 and wanted a job, there weren’t a lot of options. Few law firms — or law schools — would have you. Same with medical schools and business schools. So most educated women made one of three choices. They became teachers, nurses, or clerical workers. And if you went into teaching, says economist Sylvia Allegretto, you earned a premium — about 15 percent— over other college-educated women.

Nov 15, 2024 | statnews.com | Kara Miller

Asaf Bitton, a primary care doctor working at BWH South Huntington Primary Care and an associate professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School, has seen an uptick in interest among his peers to join concierge programs.David L Ryan/The Boston Globe Money can buy lots of stuff.

Nov 14, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Kara Miller

Money can buy lots of stuff. But one of its greatest perks is the ability to make life more frictionless: A first-class airline ticket will expedite you through the airport and onto the plane. An upgraded theme park ticket will allow you to cut to the front of the line. But if you have a few thousand dollars to make your trip to Disney World more enjoyable, why not use that money for something far more consequential? Like skipping the incredibly long line at your doctor’s office.

Nov 7, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Kara Miller

On Nov. 6, the day after the election, Eric Major’s company got about 200 times the number of calls it would have gotten on a typical day just two months earlier. When he told me that, I thought I had misheard him. So I asked if he meant to say that he was getting 200 percent more business than usual. No, Major insisted. For every call that he received in September, he was now getting 200 calls. “It’s been crazy,” he said.