ArthurLazarusMDMBA

Authored Content

• The Dual Role of Illusion in Patient CareNovember 2024
• If You Are Pro-Psychiatry, Should You Be Anti-RFK?November 2024
• Trump Regret SyndromeNovember 2024
• The Long Walk Home to a Better Health Care SystemNovember 2024
• The Challenges and Triumphs of Self-Publishing in a Conventional WorldNovember 2024
• Dark Humor Allows Us to See the "Light" in MedicineNovember 2024
• 10 Strategies for Healthcare Practitioners to Re-Engage with PatientsOctober 2024
• Live Longer, Die Shorter: The Surprising Health Secrets to a Vital Old AgeOctober 2024
• I Was Quietly Fired Even Though I CompliedOctober 2024
• The Growing Discrepancy Between Health Care Proimses and PracticeOctober 2024
• The Ebb and Flow of Mentorship in MedicineOctober 2024
• Why This Doctor Says Medicine is Broken and What Can Be Done About ItSeptember 2024
• The Erosion of Autonomy in Sports and MedicineSeptember 2024
• Medical Gaslighting and Strategies to Combat ItSeptember 2024
• Diversity Action Plans for Clinical Trials: Evaluating FDA's Draft GuidanceSeptember 2024
• The Long Strange Trip of Psychedelic DrugsSeptember 2024
• The Dark Psychology of Medical Con-MenAugust 2024
• Political Discussions in the Doctor-Patient RelationshipAugust 2024
• How Should Unethical Legacies in Medical History Be Handled?August 2024
• The Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Women’s Reproductive Rights in the 1950sAugust 2024
• What Is "Character Assassination" in Medicine?August 2024
• 21st Century Schizoid Health Care: The Unseen Crisis of our SystemJuly 2024
• First Impressions Count in HealthcareJuly 2024
• Donald Trump's Near-Death Experience: A Journey of Potential Transformation?July 2024
• When Protocols Fail: Lessons from Trump’s Attempted Assassination and Medical ErrorsJuly 2024
• Administrative Harm is Destroying the Practice of MedicineJuly 2024
• President Biden’s Debate Performance: Episode or Condition?July 2024
• Scams Perpetrated on Authors by Impersonators and Bad ActorsJune 2024
• The Risks of Digital Health Companies to Psychiatric PatientsJune 2024
• The Power of "Enough-ness" in MedicineJune 2024
• How the Time-Honored Tradition of a Baseball Catch Became a "Test" for a Brain InjuryJune 2024
• The Artificially Intelligent PhysicianJune 2024
• Appreciate the People in Your Life: How Simple Words Can Make a Big DifferenceJune 2024
• Why do Physicians – and Psychiatrists in Particular – Write?June 2024
• Why Every Picture Tells a Medical StoryJune 2024
• How Will You Make Your Mark on Medicine?May 2024
• Life-Saving Impact of Career Changes for DoctorsMay 2024
• Second Opinions are No Laughing MatterMay 2024
• 70 and Thriving: How I Discovered My Encore CareerMay 2024
• From Resident to Academic Attending: The Challenges AheadMay 2024
• Generation Z and Implications for Medical EducationMay 2024
• Why Patient Stories Matter in Medical Decision-MakingMay 2024
• Unmasking the 'Lost' Mental Health GenerationMay 2024
• The "Old" Days of Medical PracticeApril 2024
• The Impact of War Trauma, the Challenge of Objectivity, and the Power of Therapy and Storytelling in HealingApril 2024
• The Greatest Story You Never Tell: It’s Yours!April 2024
• The Real Forces That Motivate Us in Health CareApril 2024
• Dealing with Discouragement: Strategies for Aspiring Medical StudentsApril 2024
• Star Trek and Medicine Share Similar 'Prime Directives'April 2024
• Common Pitfalls Underlying Cause-and-Effect RelationshipsApril 2024
• Princess and the Pauper: Both Deserve Health PrivacyMarch 2024
• Get Over Toxic Situtations by Leaving ThemMarch 2024
• Why Not Treat Patients the Same Way We Teach Medical Students?March 2024
• The Fifth Vital SignMarch 2024
• Psychiatry in 1984 vs. Now: Has Progress Come at a Cost?March 2024
• How Narrative Medicine Empowers Neurodivergent PatientsFebruary 2024
• The Story Behind the Stories in Medicine on FireFebruary 2024
• Autism Spectrum Disorder and Medicine: Strengths, Challenges, and StoriesFebruary 2024
• Exploring Neurodivergence: A Specialist Psychiatrist’s JourneyFebruary 2024
• Spread "Aloha" in HealthcareFebruary 2024
• I Competed with My Best Friend in Medical School. It Was My Worst NightmareJanuary 2024
• Should You Fire Back After a Stealth Firing?January 2024
• Just How Personal Should Personal Statements Be on Medical School Applications?January 2024
• My Journey of Missed Journaling Opportunities in the World of MedicineJanuary 2024
• Medical Residency Closures: Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?January 2024
• Emotional Intelligence Must Guide Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 2024
• How Can Physicians Become World-Class Leaders?December 2023
• Down with Diversity in 2024?December 2023
• Why Medical Students Should Consider Narrative MedicineDecember 2023
• A Test of Medical Leadership for Penn's New PresidentDecember 2023
• Is It Noble or Selfish to Never Practice Medicine After Getting a Medical Degree?December 2023
• Catastrophic Failure of Educational Leadership Can Affect Medical StudentsDecember 2023
• Why Are We So Obsessed with Outcomes in Medicine?December 2023
• Burnout on the U.S.S. EnterpriseDecember 2023
• Bad Grammar Makes Me Mad. I Can't Help It.November 2023
• Let's Close the Gap Between Physician Writers and Writers Who Are PhysiciansNovember 2023
• The Fine Line Between Childhood Illnesses and Munchausen Syndrome by ProxyNovember 2023
• The Physician of the Future May Not Be a ClinicianNovember 2023
• Sending in "Tougher Canaries" Won't Fix the Problem of Physician Well-BeingNovember 2023
• How Will Tomorrow's Medical Students Be Different?November 2023
• The Real Story Behind Woodstock is Not the Brown AcidNovember 2023
• Medicine has Become the New McDonald's of Health CareNovember 2023
• Reflections on Human SufferingOctober 2023
• Kick Start Your Writing with a SurpriseOctober 2023
• Halloween is Almost Here. Why Aren't You Writing?October 2023
• Expressive Writing Reduces Caregiver StressOctober 2023
• Never Ask Me to Be a Medical Expert Witness (Again)October 2023
• The Essence of Health Narraitves, Including PoetryOctober 2023
• Practicing Medicine with ConvictionSeptember 2023
• Transitioning From Academic Writing to the NarrativeSeptember 2023
• Crying To Be Heard: Women in Emotional PainSeptember 2023
• Man's Search for Meaning is Spiritual, and Relevant to MedicineSeptember 2023
• A Season of Emotions: Spring, Trauma, and HealingSeptember 2023
• Discovering Self Through Creative Writing and MedicineSeptember 2023
• Physicians Divided: SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ban Sparks DebateSeptember 2023
• Reactions to Eliminating Race Conscious Admissions from Medical SchoolsSeptember 2023
• We Must Protest Our Moral OutrageAugust 2023
• How to (Legally) Diversify the Healthcare WorkforceAugust 2023
• The Medical Establishment’s Fight For and Against DiversityAugust 2023
• Bigger is Not Better in HealthcareAugust 2023
• Pseudologia Fantastica Fuels Trump's LiesAugust 2023
• Medical School Applicants Do Not Need to “Check” a Box to SucceedJuly 2023
• On Juneteenth I learned the Ugly Truth of My New Hometown. It Restored My Faith in Humanity.July 2023
• Medical Reparations are Long Overdue in MedicineJuly 2023
• The Sanitization of the Mutter MuseumJune 2023
• A Mentor's Legacy in Medicine, Leadership and Embracing Evidence-based CareJune 2023
• How Can There Be Joy in Medicine if There is No Joy in Mudville?May 2023
• Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My SanityMay 2023
• Medicine is a Joke, Except No One is LaughingMay 2023
• When an MBA Degree Meets Medicine: An Eye-Opening ExperienceMarch 2023
• Life-Saving Telehealth for Opioid Use Disorder Hangs in the BalanceMarch 2023
• The Benefits of Facing Mortality: How Bruce Springsteen and Other Rock Stars Prove Productivity Can Increase With AgeMarch 2023
• Are Physicians With MBAs Traitors to Healthcare?March 2023
• What Does It Mean When We Say Someone has Died After a Long Illness?February 2023
• Does Ageism Lurk Behind Mandatory Retirement for Physicians?February 2023
• Why Not Do Your Residency Where You Went to Medical School?February 2023
• Faking Your Way Through Medical SchoolFebruary 2023
• Trauma Motivated Me To Become A DoctorFebruary 2023
• Like Most Physicians, I've Forgotten How to RelaxJanuary 2023
• The Decline of Whole Person Treatment in Modern MedicineJanuary 2023
• The Incessant Hounding of DoctorsJanuary 2023
• I Never Wanted to Be a 'Doctor'January 2023
• Understanding Patients’ Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Promotes HealingJanuary 2023
• When Being a Physician Leads to PTSDJanuary 2023
• Treatment Is a Two-Way StreetDecember 2022
• Gil Scott-Heron's "Winter in America" Is Upon UsDecember 2022
• The Jobs You Hold Prior to Medical School are Important, but Not for the Reason You ThinkDecember 2022
• Is It Really A Woke Nightmare For Medical Schools?December 2022
• I May Be Old School, but I'm Not OutdatedDecember 2022
• Stop Passing Off Politics as Evidenced-Based MedicineDecember 2022
• Why We Shouldn't Let Case Reports Become a Lost ArtNovember 2022
• PTSD After Medical EducationNovember 2022
• Political Creep: Government Intrusion in Health CareNovember 2022
• Medical Leaders Must Show Their True ColorsNovember 2022
• Allegory Is a Powerful Tool in MedicineNovember 2022
• Mental Health is a Slippery Slope When It Comes to Physicians’ Well-beingOctober 2022
• Tele-Mental Health Is All The RageOctober 2022
• There's More to Medical Practice Than Meets the EyeSeptember 2022
• Don’t Let Vindictiveness Creep Into Medicine Like It Has In PoliticsSeptember 2022
• Human Touch and Scientific Veracity are Missing in Health Care TechnologySeptember 2022
• Call Me In, Not Out, for My TransgressionsAugust 2022
• If You Don’t Practice, Don’t Move, or You’ll Probably Lose Your LicenseAugust 2022
• Do Microaggressions Persist After Practice?July 2022
• Should Consumers Decide the Fate of Medical School Applicants?July 2022
• The "Golden Consult" RevisitedJuly 2022
• Medical Education Needs a Tune-UpJuly 2022
• Memoirs of a "Recovering" Peer ReviewerJuly 2022
• Is Your Medical Specialty Sustainable?June 2022
• Utilization Management is Medicine’s Great Conspiracy TheoryJune 2022
• Van Morrison's Self-Absorbed Descent Into COVID LunacyMay 2022
• Why Can't We Say The Word, "Suicide?"May 2022
• The Pandemic Was Not the Culprit in Dr. Lorna Breen's SuicideApril 2022
• Cancel MeApril 2022
• What Does Will Smith’s Facial Expression at the Oscars Tell Us About Our Patients?March 2022
• Going Mobile: An Antidote for Career RegretMarch 2022
• Coping With Rejection Requires ResilienceMarch 2022
• Artificial Intelligence is Worse than the Old BossFebruary 2022
• Discouraging Our Children From Becoming Doctors — The Other "Great Resignation" in MedicineFebruary 2022
• 5 Topics I Don’t Want to Read About in 2022 (But I Probably Will Anyway)February 2022
• Is It Time to Explore Alternative and Encore Careers in Medicine?January 2022
• A Message to Physician Job Recruiters: First Impressions CountJanuary 2022
• When Retirement is Code for "You're Fired!"January 2022
• Professional Courtesy Means Being a "Doctor's Doctor"January 2022
• Medical Translation Sacrifices Accuracy for UnderstandingDecember 2021
• Create a New Medical RealityDecember 2021
• Psychiatry and Sexism: Gender Bias in BPD Diagnosis?November 2021
• Ruminations on Aimee Mann’s "Queens of the Summer Hotel"— Misogyny in MedicineNovember 2021
• Are Your Hobbies Connected to Your Specialty?November 2021
• My Biggest Blind Spot Is MeNovember 2021
• For Doctors Leaving Clinical Practice: Do Not Consider Utilization Review JobsOctober 2021
• Physician Trolls Lurk on Medical WebsitesOctober 2021
• Physicians Attacking Physicians Online: Trauma of the Second OrderOctober 2021
• Whatever Happened to Professional Courtesy?September 2021
• Is Fear of Hospital Retaliation Silencing Doctors?August 2021
• Mental Health: The "New" Coming Out in MedicineAugust 2021
• Some Doctors Need Lessons In CivilityAugust 2021
• I Retired After Being Punished for Speaking Out. Now I Can Speak My MindAugust 2021
• Prior Authorization Is Causing Even More Headaches Than EHRAugust 2021
• I Am Not What Others Think of MeJune 2021
• Breaking PointMay 2021
• Folie en Masse at the Capitol: Mobsters with Shared DelusionsJanuary 2021
• The First Time I Felt like A DoctorDecember 2020
• The Not-so-Private Lives of Young DoctorsAugust 2020
• Trump’s Delusions Are Bad For Our HealthAugust 2020
• What’s It Like to be a Doximity Community Fellow — COVID-19 Notwithstanding?July 2020
• Any Functioning Adult: Deconstructing Donald TrumpJuly 2020
• Traumatized by Practice: PTSD in PhysiciansApril 2020
• We Lost Another Great Doctor Today to SuicideApril 2020
• Going Mobile -- An Antidote For Career RegretMarch 2020
• What a Doctor Learned Working 13 Years in the Pharma IndustryNovember 2019
• Is the Chief Wellness Officer a Straw Man or a Necessary Resource?October 2019
• Health Care Organizations Are All Talk, No CollaborationAugust 2019
• Engagement and Alignment – Two Sides of the Same CoinJanuary 2019
• The Essence of Health Narratives, Including PoetryOctober 2003
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