Finding Your Inner Leader

Is it my imagination, or has there been a lot of discussion on leadership lately? In the past 3 years, all the meetings I have attended had at least 1 presentation on leadership or the traits of leaders. Sometimes—even in the oddest... More

MedPAC to Congress: End “incident-to” Billing

Get rid of “incident-to” billing and have nurse practitioners and physician assistant bill Medicare under their own numbers – that’s the unanimous recommendation the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission made in its June report... More

To Thine Own Health Be True

Commentary by Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, PA-C, DFAAPA After 40 years as a PA (including 21 in academia), tucking myself safely into my seventh decade of life, I was feeling fairly invincible. Yes, I was experiencing increased fatigue and... More

My Fitness Journey

Author(s): Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, NCMP, FAANP One month into my doctoral program, I was stressed out, anxious, not sleeping well, and gaining weight. I expressed these concerns to my daughter, who is a professional bodybuilder and... More

Clinician Burnout Can Impact Quality of Care

Burnout among health care professionals has been associated with lower quality of care, but the effect may be smaller than it seems, based on data from a meta-analysis of more than 200,000 clinicians. Previous studies have reported associations... More

Distinguishing Dependence From Addiction

Marie-Eileen Onieal, PhD, CPNP, FAANP wrote an editorial in the November 2016 issue of Clinician Reviews called the The Pain Paradox It touched a pain point with many readers. Here are substantial, articulate comments as to what the... More

Empathy: Getting Past the Fluff

From the Clinician Reviews archives – even though this commentary was written in July 2013 the message from Ellen D. Mandel, DMH, MPA, MS Pa-C is timeless. There has been a lot of recent news about empathy in the medical and lay... More

Vaping: Are Its “Benefits” a Lot of Hot Air?

This commentary by Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, PA, DFAAPA that raised questions about vaping appeared in our parent publication over 3 years ago! Clinician Reviews. 2016 June;26(6):15-16 I was sitting in a restaurant bar a few days ago... More