Quality-Value Blog

For Valerie Vilbert, DO, and Linda Vilbert, DO, “family medicine” can take on a literal meaning.

Candace Good, MD believes there is power in a health care provider taking time to listen to a patient.

Pennsylvania has seen a 43 percent increase in women physicians over the past 10 years. The Pennsylvania Medical Society provides seven perspectives on the pace of progress.

PAMED member Ira Sharp, MD, chronicles his journey through cancer and how his experience as a patient can provide lessons for physicians.

Find out what to do with medical records when a physician retires or passes away.

Sherry Blumenthal, MD, Co-Chair of PAMED's Women Physicians Caucus, blogs about maternity leave.

Pennsylvania emergency physician Douglas Kupas, MD, shares why all physicians have special skills and a moral duty to be prepared, to help prepare the public, and to react to violence and injury in our communities.

As a retired obstetrician/gynecologist, I cannot help writing about a recent trip to Uganda to trek gorillas and chimpanzees, where I learned so much more than ape behavior.

Teen Health Week began in Pennsylvania and has transformed into a global event. ​Guest blogger Laura Offutt, MD, provides a guide for physicians and practices to participate in their community.

​Sherry Blumenthal, MD, Chair of PAMED's Women Physicians Caucus, blogs about how to change the culture of gender inequality in medicine.

Guest blogger Theodore Christopher, MD, FACEP, professor and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, became PAMED's next President.

In this blog, Wendy Palastro, MD, shares her five tips for defeating medical student loans.