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Can Better Access to Health Care Really Lower Costs?

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Concierge medicine versus patient-centered medical homes: debating the benefits of enhanced access to care

Should Your Doctor Be Napping on the Job?

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Napping works great for preschoolers. Why not for tired doctors and nurses?

Can Doctors Have Work-Life Balance? Medical Students Discuss

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If having work-life balance is important to you, then don’t become a doctor. That was Dr. Karen Sibert’s advice to students considering careers in medicine, in a controversial New York Times op-ed last summer. “You can’t have it all,” Sibert wrote, exhorting students — women mostly — to remember that “medical education is a privilege, [...]