KevinMD February 23, 2025
No one knows for sure what’s coming in health care in the months ahead, but one thing is clear: The landscape in 2025 will undoubtedly be changing—and challenging. For physicians and others working in such fields, this is not new but an acceleration of recent trends. External factors, like the COVID-19 pandemic, and internal, more systemic ones have increasingly taken power away from doctors—impacting everything from patient care to physician burnout in the process. Fortunately, it’s never too late to take steps to regain some power and have a bigger voice in decisions that benefit patients.
Today, the vast majority (77.6 percent) of physicians no longer work in private practice but at large corporations where businesspeople, not doctors, run the...