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Med Students’ Secret Weapon? Sleep Kelly K. James

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/med-students-secret-weapon-sleep-2026a1000wnl Every doctor knows that medical school and residency are incredibly demanding. “From a medical student standpoint, not only is there classwork during the day but so much at night to prep for — what you’ve learned and what you’re going to learn,” said Eric J. Olson, MD, p rofessor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and a pulmonologist and sleep medicine specialist.

Rheumatologists Seek Changes to Looming Medicaid Work Rules Kerry Dooley Young

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/rheumatologists-seek-changes-looming-medicaid-work-rules-2026a1000wnr A new Medicaid rule could unfairly cost people with rheumatologic diseases their access to healthcare, while also creating unnecessary administrative burdens for clinicians, medical groups said. At issue are standards for judging medical exemptions set in an interim final rule that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in June.

Steady and Strategic: Medscape Hospitalist Wealth & Debt Report 2026 Tony Stasiek

https://www.medscape.com/p11/steady-and-strategic-medscape-hospitalist-wealth-debt-report-2026a1000tgd Since we last checked in with hospitalists in the 2024 Medscape Hospitalist Wealth & Debt Report, their financial picture has remained relatively consistent. Call it an offshoot of hospitalists' "balanced lifestyle," says Lawrence B. Keller, CFP, founder of Physician Financial Services in Melville, New York. "Hospitalists know that, for the most part, they are not going to be earning what a surgeon or a proceduralist is going to earn," says Keller, whose firm has nearly 5000 physician clients across the United States. "So they're very much attuned to their financial planning, their finances, and their financial goals -- probably more than some other specialists."