Volume 118, Number 9 - November 2022
The Mental Health Issue
Cover package
Wellness First: TMA debuts its reimagined physician well-being support initiative (pages 12-19) By Emma Freer
Why the Physicians Benevolent Fund Is Important: A conversation with TMA Vice Speaker John Flores, MD (page 20) By Tammy Wishard
What Causes Burnout? Physicians rank the reasons they’re so frustrated professionally (page 23)
Help, Not Discipline: The Texas Medical Board’s Physician Health Program guides physicians through impairment issues (page 24-26) By Sean Price
Ready for Recovery: TMA’s Mental Health Response Team activates help for disasters like the Uvalde shooting (page 28-33) By Sean Price
Mental Telehealth Paves the Way: Pandemic-era flexibilities, now permanent, expand access to care and prove this technology’s enduring value (pages 34-37) By Emma Freer
Maternal Mental Health: PeriPAN addresses behavioral problems that plague women before and after childbirth (pages 38-40) By Sean Price
Other News
Economics
Death by a Thousand Cuts: TMA fights yet another proposed Medicare pay cut while advocating for comprehensive reform (pages 42-44) By Emma Freer and Amy Lynn Sorrel
Holding Their Own: Texas ACOs contribute $1.6 billion in savings to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (pages 46-47) By Amy Lynn Sorrel
Vaccines
Talk to Patients About: New York’s polio outbreak (page 48) By Sean Price
Also in this issue:
Rounds: Interim testimony
Last Updated On
November 01, 2022
Originally Published On
November 01, 2022