The Script Pad
Clinical
- Why Physicians Ignore Sepsis Alerts, and How to Build Ones They TrustSept. 27, 2026
- Diagnostic Error and the Case for the Second LookSept. 25, 2026
- The Deprescribing Conversation Most Patients Are Waiting ForSept. 24, 2026
- Who Owns the Test Result That Comes Back After Discharge?Sept. 21, 2026
- The Handoff Is a Clinical Act, Not a Clerical ChoreSept. 18, 2026
- Why Low-Value Testing Outlasts Every Campaign Against ItSept. 16, 2026
- How to Make Shared Decision Making More Than a CheckboxSept. 14, 2026
- Reading a Guideline Like a Clinician, Not a Compliance OfficerSept. 11, 2026
- What to Do With the Incidental Finding Nobody Was Looking ForSept. 9, 2026
- The Art of Telling a Patient You Are Not Sure YetSept. 7, 2026
- How to Talk About Risk in Numbers Patients Can Actually UseSept. 4, 2026
Practice & Business
- Your Front Desk Is Your BrandSept. 27, 2026
- The Quiet Math of Prior AuthorizationSept. 25, 2026
- Value-Based Contracts Without the HypeSept. 23, 2026
- Your Denial Rate Is a Process Map in DisguiseSept. 20, 2026
- Why Coding Accuracy Starts in the Exam RoomSept. 18, 2026
- How to Walk Into a Payer Negotiation With Real LeverageSept. 16, 2026
- Why Your Best Medical Assistants Keep LeavingSept. 13, 2026
- No-Shows Are a Scheduling Design Problem, Not a Patient ProblemSept. 11, 2026
- Read Your Practice's Finances the Way You Read a Patient's ChartSept. 9, 2026
- Before You Sign That Software Contract, Read the Exit TermsSept. 6, 2026
- Building a Patient Financial Experience That Does Not Scare Patients AwaySept. 4, 2026
Leadership
- The 15-Minute Visit Is Breaking Medicine. Here Is What Replaces It.Sept. 27, 2026
- How to Lead Physicians Who Were Trained to Lead ThemselvesSept. 24, 2026
- Your First 90 Days as Department ChairSept. 23, 2026
- How to Run a Medical Staff Meeting Physicians Will Actually AttendSept. 20, 2026
- Telling a Colleague the Hard Thing Without Wrecking the PartnershipSept. 18, 2026
- What a Physician Compensation Committee Owes the Group It ServesSept. 15, 2026
- Why a Board Seat Asks More of Physicians Than They ExpectSept. 13, 2026
- Making the Physician and Administrator Dyad Work Before It BreaksSept. 11, 2026
- Who Runs the Practice When You Step BackSept. 8, 2026
- Why Good Clinical Changes Die on the Floor, and How to Save ThemSept. 6, 2026
- Rebuilding the M and M Conference Around Systems Instead of BlameSept. 4, 2026
AI & Innovation
- When Patients Arrive With Chatbot AnswersSept. 26, 2026
- What an AI Scribe Actually Changes About Your DaySept. 26, 2026
- A Physician's Checklist for Evaluating Any AI ToolSept. 23, 2026
- Who Is Accountable for a Note an Ambient Scribe DraftedSept. 20, 2026
- What Radiology and Pathology Have Learned About Living With AISept. 17, 2026
- Can AI Actually Tame the Patient Message Inbox?Sept. 15, 2026
- Remote Patient Monitoring Only Works if Someone Is WatchingSept. 13, 2026
- The First Hours After Ransomware Hits Your PracticeSept. 10, 2026
- Before You Say Yes to the Startup Pitching Your GroupSept. 8, 2026
- The Digital Front Door Is Only as Good as the Hallway Behind ItSept. 6, 2026
- What Physicians Should Know About AI Reviewing Their Prior AuthorizationsSept. 3, 2026
Policy
- How to Read the Medicare Fee Schedule Without Losing an AfternoonSept. 26, 2026
- What the Physician Shortage Actually Means for Your PracticeSept. 24, 2026
- Price Transparency Has Reached the Exam RoomSept. 19, 2026
- Why the Same Visit Can Cost More Down the HallSept. 17, 2026
- Noncompetes Are Being Rewritten One State at a TimeSept. 15, 2026
- Inside the Scope of Practice Fight Physicians Keep Losing and WinningSept. 12, 2026
- How to Build a Telehealth Program on Temporary RulesSept. 10, 2026
- What Information Blocking Rules Mean for Your InboxSept. 8, 2026
- Should Physicians Unionize? A Balanced Look at a Growing MovementSept. 5, 2026
- How to Get a State Legislator to Return Your CallSept. 3, 2026
- Medicaid Churn Is Quietly Reshaping Your Patient PanelSept. 2, 2026
Wellbeing
- Burnout Is Not a Resilience Problem. It Is a Design Problem.Sept. 25, 2026
- Five Money Mistakes Physicians Make in Their First Five YearsSept. 22, 2026
- The Physician Marriage, and the Calendar That Protects ItSept. 21, 2026
- Moral Injury Is Not Burnout by Another NameSept. 19, 2026
- How to Build a Sleep Strategy When Nights Are Part of the JobSept. 16, 2026
- Physician Parents Need a Backup Plan for the Backup PlanSept. 14, 2026
- What Happens to the Physician After an Adverse EventSept. 12, 2026
- Why Your Inbox Needs Office Hours TooSept. 9, 2026
- The Lonely Physician and the Lost Art of the Doctors' LoungeSept. 7, 2026
- Can You Get Help Without Risking Your License?Sept. 5, 2026
- The Grief Physicians Are Not Supposed to FeelSept. 2, 2026
Careers
- Reading Your First Employment ContractSept. 22, 2026
- The Physician Side Venture, Done RightSept. 22, 2026
- Getting Through Residency Without Losing YourselfSept. 21, 2026
- The Attending Job Search Is Nothing Like the MatchSept. 19, 2026
- How to Ask for a Raise When You Are an Employed PhysicianSept. 17, 2026
- Locum Tenens Is a Career Strategy, Not a DetourSept. 14, 2026
- Should You Trade Clinic Hours for an Administrative Title?Sept. 12, 2026
- Making Part Time Medicine Work Without Quietly Working Full TimeSept. 10, 2026
- Academic Promotion Rewards What You Document, Not What You DoSept. 7, 2026
- What to Settle Before You Leave Employment to Open Your Own PracticeSept. 5, 2026
- How to Return to Clinical Practice After Time AwaySept. 3, 2026