Developing a strong athletics-to-medicine pipeline could encourage more Black men to become healthcare providers, supporters of the strategy say, according to the nonprofit publication Undark. 

Family members of a New York City emergency room physician who died by suicide last year are pushing for federal legislation to address the nation's physician burnout crisis, The Washington Post reported Sept. 15.

Physicians in four Northeastern states are projected to face the most competition by 2028, according to an analysis by WalletHub, a personal finance website. 

San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians Medical Group will grow to more than 4,220 physicians with the addition of NorthBay Medical Group providers in October. 

Despite warnings from several national medical boards saying physicians who spread vaccine misinformation could lose their medical licenses, many are still in practice, a Sept. 14 NPR report found. 

A family medicine physician has given the nearly 3,000 patients of her independent practice in South Miami a deadline of Sept. 15 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or terminate their patient-physician relationship, the Miami Herald reports.

Medical Center of South Arkansas in El Dorado has selected a new provider of hospitalist and emergency department physician services despite objections from physicians, according to the El Dorado News-Times.

Far too many Americans possess a negative stereotype about opioid addiction.

Two Boston physicians were among the four people killed in a small plane crash in Connecticut on Sept. 2, according to The Boston Globe.

Although much of the nation’s attention has been devoted to the coronavirus pandemic, the opioid epidemic is also ravaging our nation.

Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, Fla., removed an emergency room physician who was selling parents mask opt-out letters for their school children, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. 

About 75 physicians from numerous hospitals and medical groups in Palm Beach County, Fla., assembled outside a medical office Aug. 23 to encourage the community to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Dozens of students in California are going maskless because of a medical exemption, with almost all of them coming from one physician, CBS 13 reported Aug. 14.

Upper Allegheny Health System, a health system in Olean, N.Y., expanded its agreement with physician management and staffing firm Keystone Healthcare Partners to include hospital and intensive care unit services.

As a growing number of hospitals pressed for resources due to the COVID-19 surge suspend elective surgeries, some healthcare professionals want the public to know exactly how important an "elective" procedure can be. 

Students who said they were mistreated during their first two years of medical school were more likely to report exhaustion and career regret by the time they graduated, according to findings published Aug. 9 in JAMA Network Open.

Sixty-one percent of physicians reported experiencing burnout in 2021, up from 40 percent in 2018, according to a small survey the Physicians Foundation released Aug. 4.  

Seattle Children's Hospital said it will adopt recommendations from an investigation into systemic racism at the hospital, but the board has yet to release the findings from the monthslong review, according to The Seattle Times. 

Baylor Scott & White Health is suing a physician for allegedly claiming to be affiliated with the Dallas-based system. The physician says he hasn't claimed to be employed by Baylor Scott & White since leaving the system earlier this year, The Dallas Morning News reported July 29. 

Women in surgical residency programs are far more likely to experience discrimination or sexual harassment than their male peers, a study published July 28 in JAMA Surgery found.