Siding with the University of Miami, an appeals court Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a 2011 state law designed to shield some medical schools and doctors from liability in medical-malpractice cases.
Last fall, about a month before her Medicaid coverage was scheduled to expire, Darolyn Lee realized that she needed to get her contraceptive implant replaced. Lee, a 37-year-old in Chicago, called the managed care organization in charge of her plan to find out where she should go to get the new implant.
Dr. Gajendra Singh walked out of his local hospital’s outpatient department last year, having been told an ultrasound for some vague abdominal pain he was feeling would cost $1,200 or so, and decided enough was enough. If he was balking at the price of a routine medical scan, what must people who weren’t well-paid medical professionals be thinking?
If you're lucky enough to get a job as a physician assistant, you could find yourself making nearly $105,000 a year. What do the highest-paid PAs make, and what do they do on a day-to-day basis?
Drugmakers that pay for doctors' meals get an outsize return on their investment, or a 73% increase in prescribing of their drug. That was the conclusion of a new paper, which looked at cardiologists who were taken out to a meal by sales representatives of Pfizer or AstraZeneca. The companies make two expensive branded cholesterol-lowering statins, Lipitor and Crestor.
Before deciding if physician burnout is a chief information officer (CIO) concern, it is important to understand it. Physician burnout is a long-term stress reaction characterized by cynical or negative attitudes toward patients, emotional exhaustion, a feeling of decreased personal achievement and a lack of empathy for patients.