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Sep 9, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Kimberly Clare |Michaela Barry |Teresa Samson |Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick
I can’t say that I wasn’t warned. It was 2017 and I was the CEO of a 6-physician pediatric practice. We were doing fine, but quality incentive dollars formed at least half of our annual revenue. We were behind on our latest Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recertification and at risk of not making payroll. I was sitting in my own doctor’s office, following up on stress-related health issues, when I saw a parent who worked there as a medical assistant.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Michaela Barry |Teresa Samson |Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick |Elisa Troyer
“But what if I can’t find anyone to pick me up?” My silence must have hung heavily over the phone as I tried to think of solutions to this impossible question. The patient on the other end of the line was a gregarious middle-aged woman whose Cologuard had recently returned positive, and she needed to be scheduled for a colonoscopy. Unfortunately, she couldn’t think of anyone who would be able to pick her up from her procedure, or provide aftercare in the 24 hours post-anesthesia.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ryan Richman |Ashna Jain |Abraham Kim |Michaela Barry
Unless you’re from a very specific geographic region, the name New York probably conjures images of skyscrapers, subways, restaurants, and a city that never sleeps. Also traffic, walls of odd smells, and rats scurrying around piles of sidewalk garbage. All these pictures are accurate, but forget that New York isn’t just New York City, but a whole state, which features trees, beaches, and farms.
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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.
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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.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ryan Richman |Michaela Barry |May Ameri
As a card-carrying member of the Coalition of Type A Persons, I certainly understand the need for certainty and the desire to plan. I am constantly trying to find a more efficient way to organize my day and create space for new organizational structures. In most ways, the act of working in the ED fits this desire and this need very well. Patients are pieces to move through a system and as you figure out the best ways to move them through, that system you gradually become more efficient.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Michaela Barry |Ryan Richman |May Ameri |Brittany Panico
He was intubated and deeply sedated, hypoxemic from multifocal pneumonia, and on two vasopressors for his septic shock. Another gentleman was cachectic, and barely able to walk to the bathroom on his own due to extensive left lower extremity pyomyostitis. Yet another patient experienced acute respiratory failure from Legionella pneumonia, and required 8 liters of oxygen. There was also the frail young man, just a few years older than I, on inotropic support for decompensated heart failure.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | May Ameri |Ryan Richman |Michaela Barry |Brittany Panico
Leaving all I knew behind and immigrating to a homogenous neighborhood as a 7-year-old was a difficult transition. I couldn’t understand why no Disney channel heroine looked like me; why I felt so abnormal. Years and assimilation pass: I am 21 years old and one of the refugee women I work with asks to speak to me in private. She is embarrassed to tell that she hasn’t been able to attend our meetings on navigating the American health care system because she and her neighbors lack transportation.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Bryan Jepson |Jessica Reeves |Avneet Soin |Michaela Barry
As physicians, we are trained to tease out biases in medical research to avoid faulty conclusions. We watch for them in our clinical interactions with challenging patients so as not to be led toward a missed diagnosis or inappropriate treatment. But how often do we recognize biases when it comes to our finances and personal investing?
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jessica Reeves |Avneet Soin |Michaela Barry |Matthew Scott
I was thinking about what it’s like to work in health care these days, and it happened. A flash of clarity. My fragmented thoughts fell into alignment as I was listening to the song “Race For The Prize,” by The Flaming Lips. In the simplest sense, this is a song about two scientists in a race for a vague “prize” … but at what cost? I had the song on repeat over the next few days, and certain lyrics jumped out at me; I’m sharing them here.
