Many of us in physician leadership roles are tasked with carrying out professional reviews with our physician colleagues. It can be a...

Developing an authentic patient-physician relationship was always one of the most fulfilling aspects of practicing medicine. Having a...

It was the year 2000, I was chair of anesthesia at the University of Iowa, practicing pain medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of the...

Physician burnout has become an in-vogue term that physicians understand intuitively, and non-physician leaders push back against. The...

When new patients arrive in our offices clinical ambiguity is often present. We don’t know the patient and haven’t had an opportunity to...

After sequential, four-plus year blocks of undergraduate work, then medical school, then residency training, and often a fellowship, you...

So often mentor relationships come via assigning less experienced professionals with those further up the professional ladder. This...

As a great author, C.S. Lewis stated many years ago, "the next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”...

Reflecting on a career that allowed me an almost continuous opportunity to mentor physicians and others on our teams, the one reprint...

From medical school onward, physicians are rewarded for being independent and creative thinkers. Uncertainty about an approach to a...