Physician burnout in the U.S. is reaching epidemic levels, affecting the majority of physicians in some specialties. Instead, it's the most mundane part of their jobs that's driving them away from the profession.
Michael Stanley has worked as a physician’s assistant for the better part of two decades and seen around 65,000 patients during that time. But he has never written any of them a prescription for a controlled substance. Anywhere else in the country, Stanley would be able to prescribe medications if his supervising physician approved.
A DeQuincy doctor is accused of phoning in a fake shooting threat according to authorities, but the doctor says it wasn’t a prank, it was a misunderstanding. “On Monday at 10:47, DeQuincy Police Department received a report from the hospital stating they received a call that a man with a gun was coming to the hospital to shoot them,” DeQuincy Police Captain Tom Threet said.
My daughter squirmed on her back, rocking the changing table. She bicycle-kicked her 1-year-old legs. No shoes or pants could be removed. She held her arms down. No shirt could rise over her head. Perhaps she sensed my mood, and my wife’s and Ma’s mood as they talked somewhere outside her closed bedroom door, and responded in kind.
Police served a search warrant Tuesday to get DNA from all male employees at a long-term care facility in Phoenix where a patient who had been in a vegetative state for years gave birth, triggering investigations by state agencies and police and putting a spotlight on safety concerns for patients who are severely disabled or incapacitated. Hacienda HealthCare said it welcomed the DNA testing.
Top cancer surgeons told CNBC that they expect Ginsburg to be back on the bench in less than six weeks, with more than enough time to return for the court’s February sitting. “I think a lot of people are getting scared because they are concerned about the balance of the court, but I’m confident she’s not going anywhere. She’s going to be back on the court,” said Raja Flores, the Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.