Medscape Business of Medicine Podcast

A Texas hospital refuses to hire overweight staff, including doctors and nurses. Is this ethical -- or sensible? A leading bioethicist gives his take on the situation.

The Arizona Senate recently approved a bill that would allow doctors to withhold genetic test information if it could result in abortion. A leading bioethicist provides his take on this serious issue.

Joseph Smith, MD, Chief Medical and Science Officer of West Wireless Health Institute, says that doctors keep doing the same treatments without paying enough attention to the evidence for them.

Stuart Altman, PhD, of Brandeis University, talks with Eli Y. Adashi, MD, about US healthcare reform and the upcoming Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act.

The NIH will no longer fund medical research on chimps, but a bioethicist argues that there is still a case for using animals in medical research as long as it is done humanely.

Truth is more a tool than a necessity, says a leading ethicist, commenting on a recent study showing that physicians are not always fully truthful with patients.

Dr. Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Institute discusses the ins and out of ACOs and more.

In this UK-US Skype conversation, Lynda Szczech and Donal O'Donoghue discuss their common enemy -- system problems and dosing errors in patient with kidney disease.

Getting payment from patients can be challenging, and it gets even worse when a new year starts and patients are grappling with deductibles. But there are numerous opportunities to increase the amount of self-pay you can bring in.

Doctors can speed up the patient visit without rushing or sacrificing quality. This lets a physician see more patients each day. Here's how to analyze the patient visit workflow.