- Doctors With Disabilities: Why They’re Important (The Upshot)
- U.S. Faces Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians (CBS News)
Physician Profession & Work Environment
- Rise of Robot Radiologists (Nature)
- Women more likely to be warned away from surgery careers due to gender (Reuters)
- Sexual Abuse and Discrimination in Healthcare (InStyle)
- An Epidemic of Loneliness — Among Lawyers and Doctors (Ozy)
- Operating Room "Spies" Reveal How Surgeons Wield Power, Rank, and Gender (Inverse)
- What Does It Take to Be a Doctor on a SWAT Team? (Vice)
- Being a Doctor Is Hard. It’s Harder for Women. (The New York Times)
- Why are female doctors introduced by first name while men are called ‘Doctor’? (The Washington Post)
- This Female Doctor Wrote A Powerful Letter About Sexism In The Workplace (The New England Journal of Medicine)
Physician Socialization and Training
- The top 10 ethical issues medical students should be taught (American Medical Association)
- For the first time ever, more women than men are going to med school (Quartz)
- How doctors are taught to deal with death (The Conversation)
- America Is Surprisingly Reliant on Foreign Medical Graduates (The New York Times)
- The Unwritten Curriculum Of Med School (Scope Stanford Medicine)
- The Comics Revealing Medical School's Hidden Flaws and Hard Lessons (The Atlantic)
- Rookie doctors can work longer, 24-hour shifts under new rules (NPR)
Physician-Patient Interaction
- Race and Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Mistrust (The New York Times)
- Are you being insulted by your doctors without your knowledge? (International Business Times)
- Bad Doctor! 40 Percent Of Healthcare Professionals Still Work When Sick (Study Finds)
- I won the Doctor Lottery — but only after some bad encounters (Washington Post)
- Telemedicine Is Forcing Doctors to Learn 'Webside' Manner (Wired)
- Does Empathy and Warmth Make a Physician Seem More Competent? (Scientific American)
Physician-Patient Interaction & Gender
- Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors (The Conversation)
- Why Don't We Know More About Migraines? (BBC)
- When Doctors Downplay Women’s Health Concerns (The New York Times)
- How female pain is treated differently at the doctors (Dazed)
- Researchers Find Women Make Better Surgeons Than Men (Time)
- Does a doctor's gender affect your chance of survival?. (Us News)
- Medicine’s gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as ‘small men’ (The Conversation)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Genitals (Lady Science)
Physician-Patient Interaction & Ethnicity
- Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors (The Conversation)
- The Secret to Keeping Black Men Healthy? Maybe Black Doctors (The New York Times)
Patient-Physician Interaction
- What doctors can learn from patients who draw their illnesses (World Economic Forum)
- This is the price female doctors pay for showing more empathy (World Economic Forum)
- Survey Finds Most Doctors Have Heard Negative Remarks About Race, Age, or Gender (NBC News)
- Video Of A White Woman Demanding A White Doctor Shocked Everyone... Except Black Doctors (The Root)
Medicalization
- Sexual Addiction: The Latest Fad Diagnosis (Psych Central)
- Do We All Have Behavioral Addictions? (HuffPost)
- AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease (New York Times)
- 5 new brain disorders that were born out of the digital age (The Week)
- Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work (Vox)
Depersonalization of Medicine
- The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine (The Atlantic)
- The doctor will see you now - but often not for long (Reuters)
- The Patients vs. Paperwork Problem for Doctors (The New York Times)
- Rude Doctors, Rude Nurses, Rude Patients (The New York Times)
- Physician burnout is on the rise (CBS News)
Medical Malpractice
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Dentists pressed to drill healthy teeth for profit, ex-employees say (USA Today)
- Medical errors may stem more from physician burnout than unsafe health care settings (Stanford Medicine)
- Hospitals and device makers still struggle to rid medical scopes of infectious bacteria (Los Angeles Times)
- Are distracted doctors risking patients' safety? (Fox News)
- Your Biggest C-Section Risk May Be Your Hospital (Consumer Reports)
- Mayo Clinic study sheds light on value of second opinions (Life Sciences)
Physician Specialities
- Types of Doctors and What They Do (Medical News Today)