Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what’s next.
- Can you help your patients in medical debt? — Americans owe over $140 billion in medical debt. Here are 5 ways providers can help (Advisory Board)
- Malpractice insurance may be a necessary evil, but what does it really do? — What physicians need to know about malpractice insurance (CompHealth)
- Using new tools to stave off burnout — Innovation should mitigate rising burnout (Physicians Practice)
- Some communities are acting like they are “back to normal” but their hospitals aren’t — ‘Hospitals can’t get back to normal until the community does’: Missouri leaders implore public to get vaccinated (Becker’s Hospital Review)
- As patient behavior changes, can physicians keep up? — Tools of the trade: Attracting and keeping patients in a more fluid market (Medical Economics)
Lisa Grabl is president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, the nation’s largest locum tenens physician staffing company and a leader in permanent and temporary allied healthcare staffing. She has worked in healthcare staffing for more than 20 years.