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For office-based physicians, gender inequity pops up in the EHR

Women physicians are more likely than their male counterparts to experience burnout. Learn how the gender disparity in EHR documentation contributes.

Physician Health
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Is ageism creeping into your care of older adults?

Care for older adults is already complex enough, but bias can make matters worse. Find out how ageism affects senior patients—and physicians too.

Population Health
Mark C. Henderson, MD, with University of California, Davis, health-professional trainees
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How diversity’s power can help overcome the physician shortage

There aren’t enough doctors to care for aging patients and not enough physicians who mirror the nation’s diversity. Learn how the two are connected.

Health Equity
Riley Wagner Lipschitz, MD
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Q&A: After years in practice, why this internist came out to patients

Arkansas internist Riley Wagner Lipschitz, MD, says a deeply personal reason drove her decision to talk about her wife with patients. Learn more.

Health Equity
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In stressful times for women doctors, self-care can go a long way

While burnout is a systems issue, especially amid the pandemic, two women physicians detail the power of reclaiming control and asking for help.

Physician Health
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The burden of burnout for women in medicine with Vineet Arora, MD

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Vineet Arora, MD, about the burden of burnout for women in medicine.

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Physician Health
Moving Medicine Video Update
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Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, on why renaming the B-T shunt matters

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, about the importance of recognizing Black pioneers in medicine.

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Health Equity
Moving Medicine Video Update
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COVID-19 has hit physicians hard—some more than others

Amid physicians’ pandemic burdens comes another: a rise in disrespect for doctors from historically marginalized racial or ethnic groups, survey shows.

Health Equity
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Inequities in medicine take personal toll on physicians, students

Two physicians and a medical student shared stories of how inequities and racism in medicine have personally impacted them as patients and trainees.

Medical School Diversity