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WSJ: AMA Weighs Whether Docs Should Hang Up Their White Coats

17 June, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Perusing the WSJ health blogs I came across this post: AMA Weighs Whether Docs Should Hang Up Their White Coats Apparently, one of the policy questions addressed at the recent annual AMA conference was whether doctors should forgo their white coats for infection control reasons. In Britain, ties, jewelry, and long sleeves have already been […]

Filed Under: Infectious Diseases Tagged With: In The News, Prevention

WSJ: How Much Do Rookie Doctors Make? The Latest Scorecard

17 June, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

This headline was very catching as I wanted to know the answer myself. The truth is a lot of medical students, residents, and fellows don’t actually know how much their first real salary will be. We hear low numbers from our academic supervisors and for those of us in primary care we begin to wonder […]

Filed Under: Medicine Tagged With: In The News, Physician Income

The Practice of Financial Medicine

12 June, 2009 by GAggreyMD 1 Comment

What’s that you say? You didn’t know about the specialty of financial medicine? Well neither did I until recently. No, this is not about President Obama’s plan for public health insurance. Although I do side with the American Medical Association in being skeptical of it I’m annoyed that their main bone of contention seems to […]

Filed Under: Medicine Tagged With: ACA, Diagnostics, Health Economics, Healthcare, In The News, Insurance, Physician Income

Rainy Day Reading

28 May, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

What else is there to do on a rainy day but read? Over on WSJ we learn 10 reasons doctors get burned out. It is written by a surgeon about surgeons but I think most other doctors will agree it rings true for them as well. Yet even though I agree with many of the […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Burnout, Hand Hygiene, Healthcare, In The News, Influenza, Medical Education, Medical Residency, Physician Income, Social Media

Swine Flu (H1N1 Influenza A)

1 May, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Tune in to any media channel and you will be bombarded by news of a new and deadly influenza virus. When this started about a week ago, I was underwhelmed. I’m less underwhelmed now as I do believe this is something newsworthy, I’m just not alarmed or frightened as I know what flu truly is. […]

Filed Under: Infectious Diseases Tagged With: Hand Hygiene, In The News, Influenza, Medical Education, Microbes, MRSA, Pneumonia, Prevention, Staphylococcus

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