Physician Profession, Interaction, and Medicalization

Physician Demographics

• 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

• Stop medicalising loneliness – history reveals it's society that needs mending (The Conversation)

• 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

• 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)