Tiffany Brown, DO Chair, DO, FACOEP-D The Physicians Wellness Committee recently sent out a survey to gauge the needs of our great organization. We had 148 survey participants from the college and will use this information to help us address the high level of both physician fatigue and lack [...]

Timothy Cheslock, DO, FACOEP-D As I sit here and write this open letter to the membership, our Scientific Assembly is less than 4 weeks away.  Our flagship CME event of the year is coming soon to Washington DC  from August 11-15, and I look forward to gathering with colleagues [...]

Jeremy Selley, DO, FACOEP Why are we still talking about congress and physician reimbursement?  If you remember back in 2015 congress finally passed a “fix” called the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) that fixed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) that required 17 yearly fixes from [...]

Bill Bograkos, MA, DO, FAOAAM, FACOEP, FACOFP, COL MC FS COL (retired) My name is Bill Bograkos, and I am a retired military physician.  I became a member of the ACOEP in 1993, and have spent the last seven years serving as a consultant on Trauma Recovery, Psychiatry Continuity [...]

Timothy Cheslock, DO, FACOEP As I write this article, the results of the 2023 Match have just been released and the internet is flooded with tweets and comments, opinions of many varieties as to what is happening to our profession. What went wrong? Why so many unmatched slots? Is [...]

Brandon Lewis, DO, MBA, FACOEP, FACEP In the previous decade, the increasing inability for Emergency Medicine groups to come to an agreement on reasonable compensation with payers who continued to ratchet down on physician reimbursement led to an increasing number of patients who found themselves being taken care of [...]