Just a quick note from Colorado! I'm at my District VIII meeting, being awed by the work that pediatricians all over my district are doing. It's both inspiring and motivating to be surrounded by leaders in the field. It's also comforting to hear...

All the buzz in the media and on doctor blogs in the past day or two has been the announcement that, according to a survey published in the Journal of American Medical Association, only 2 percent of graduating medical students are going into primary...

Today, I was reading another physician blog, http://acountrydoctorwrites.wordpress.com/, in between seeing patients (my charts were calling but I ignored them for the moment). One of his recent stories was entitled, "Choices in Swedish Health Care." In...

I love this time of year. The sunlight is already beginning to have a fall quality to it, the air smells fresher, and the nights are cooler. Change is definitely in the air! When I first started this blog, I had plans to start a new job this coming...