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Problem: Decreasing Latino physicians as population increases

Celida Lizarraga doesn’t remember seeing many doctors who looked like her when she had to translate for her parents during medical visits. The 17-year-old said...
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Busy Schedule vs Hunger: Five quick and healthy recipes for doctors

Most of our days involve more than 10 hours of nonstop work, without any certainty of a break. Our focus is totally on the...
Doctors - make these small adjustments for a stress-free life

Doctors – make these small adjustments for a stress-free life

Of late, Dr. Schaberg has been getting headaches. It usually starts around mid-morning, when he is checking on his patients in the hospital. By...

Should kids be able to opt-out of all vaccines? Some doctors...

Seattle doctors are making national headlines for suggesting children should be able to opt-out of all vaccines except for measles. The proposal -- by Douglas...
Permissionless-Innovation

Can Permissionless Innovation Improve Healthcare?

In the following video, Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center talks about the concept of Permissionless Innovation. Some of the services...
more doctors needed in rural

More doctors needed in rural areas as demand for health care...

The demand for doctors around the country continues to increase, but it's rural communities right in Wisconsin that are the most under-served. High rates of...
quebec euthanasia bill

Quebec’s euthanasia bill is the only one in the world that...

Quebec’s euthanasia experiment that was scheduled to begin on December 10, 2015 is the only law in the world which attempts to coerce physicians...
hospital-cafeteria

Why do hospitals feed their staff so poorly?

I recently visited a friend who works at Google and was pleasantly surprised by the Bay-area tech giant’s health-promotion efforts. Its crowded cafeteria offered...
cost-of-becoming-a-doctor

$2.6 million: Is the cost of becoming a doctor worth it?

Each year, over 20,000 U.S. students begin medical school.  They routinely pay $50,000 or more per year for the privilege, and the average medical...
gop-obamacare

GOP May Thwart Obamacare’s Huge Pay Raise For Doctors

A huge pay raise under the Affordable Care Act for primary care doctors who treat the nation’s poor covered by Medicaid health insurance is...