Gail Garfinkel Weiss

In the past decade, there was a sharp increase in medical liability premiums, but recently, malpractice insurance has started to level off, indicating a potential new trend.

The hospitalist career path is among medicine's fastest growing specialties.

While primary care physicians, by and large, worked as much in 2008 as they did the previous year, the number of patients seen increased just marginally, according to Medical Economics' annual productivity survey.

Alfred J. Maher, MD, differs from most hospital physicians in that he didn't begin working as a hospitalist soon after residency.

As you prepare to start a new job, read your employment contract carefully, make sure you understand all of its provisions, and, if necessary, let a lawyer have a peek.

With the rapid and sustained growth of the hospitalist movement, cooperation between teams of physicians becomes even more critical.

Whether just done with residency, an experienced hospitalist seeking new work, or a private practice physician transitioning to hospitalist work, a job hunt, at the outset, is an exercise in information-gathering.

A rough year for the U.S. economy had little negative impact on the income of physicians, according to the results of Medical Economics' 2009 Exclusive Survey.

E-mail and voicemail are excellent and convenient means of dealing with prescription renewals, appointment reminders, and other standard administrative tasks.

You think you're doing great-but does your boss agree? Here's how to know what the practice leader expects of you.

Experts tell how to avoid accusations of failure to diagnose, failure to follow up, negligence, and abuse.

Technological advances, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, are enabling people with hearing loss to succeed as physicians.

More than half the physicians hired by groups leave in the first five years. Here's how to keep that from happening in your practice.

For most doctors, our poll shows, patient autonomy is key when the patient turns away from conventional medicine.

Video programs and "webpads"-with targeted messages-are being placed in thousands of physicians' waiting rooms. Should yours be next?

Our poll shows that physicians, like the general population, are deeply divided on the ethical implications of abortion.

Documentation, insurance, and compliance issues are keeping many doctors in the office longer.

Open communication fosters better medicine and can reduce noncompliance, bad outcomes, and, possibly, malpractice suits.

Intimate partner abuse is as common--and as much of a medical problem--as smoking, hypertension, and other ills that you routinely ask patients about.

You did everything you could think of to make yourself clear. So how come your patient's still baffled?

From high school dropout to teacher of youth