OB-GYN is the specialty with the highest percentage of female physicians while orthopedics has the lowest, a Medscape report found.

As we enter the mid-2020s, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more common, and its abilities are expanding at an exciting (or alarming, depending upon your point of view) rate. Soon, we will turn AI loose, and armed with hundreds of millions of patient charts to learn from, it will effortlessly out-diagnose and out-treat every one of us. 

Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, American Medical Association president, outlined a potential five-step solution to the physician shortage crisis in a speech to the National Press Club on Oct. 25.

The emergency department at AdventHealth East Orlando developed a patient intake technique to streamline care and ensure patients are seen more quickly, which is now being used across the health system's eight hospital-based emergency departments, according to an Oct. 25 news release.

Female physicians indicated that long hours at work and rules and regulations were the two most challenging parts of the job, a Medscape report found.

Several hospitals and health systems have rolled out new physician residency programs this year to create more training opportunities for students after medical school and expand the pipeline of future physicians. 

Female physicians saw a 6.4% raise in compensation last year, narrowing the gender pay gap, a Medscape report found.

America's physician shortage is on the rise, affecting recruitment and retention, according to one new study. 

Amid rising violence against healthcare workers — and after a nurse of its own was attacked — Rhode Island Hospital in Providence has launched a campaign to promote safety. 

The American College of Surgeons appointed Henri Ford, MD, as its 2023-2024 president.

Growing up in Indonesia, Edmond de Bie often faced confrontations from other boys seeking fights, whereas his cantankerous identical twin brother Edward would carry magazines under his jacket to cushion the blows, usually coming at his own instigation.

The Connecticut Hospital Association has adopted a code of conduct policy for patients and families, which will apply to 27 hospitals in the state as well as other healthcare settings.

A physician is suing Henry Ford Health in Detroit for age discrimination, casting a spotlight on an ongoing debate that strikes at the heart of patient safety and medical professionalism: age-based cognitive assessments for physicians.

While unexpected hospital readmissions for pediatric patients have remained largely unchanged in Massachusetts since 2017, the length of stay from these readmissions is going up.

New survey findings indicate racial and ethnic minority medical students are more likely to say they plan on practicing in medically underserved areas upon graduation.

Primary care had the largest increase in reported median wRVU (work relative value units) productivity from 2022 to 2023, driven by the 2021 physician fee schedule changes to evaluation and management wRVU values, according to one new survey.

MetroHealth's spinoff imaging company opened a fourth location in Westlake, Ohio.

Tempe-based Arizona State University has selected Phoenix for headquarters of ASU Health, a new 'learning health ecosystem' that includes a medical school and expanded alliance with Mayo Clinic. 

Approximately 1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to the workforce, according to a study from Paychex, a human resources consulting firm.

Cardiologist was the top-paid physician specialty in 2022, followed by orthopedic surgeon and pediatric surgeon, according to an Oct. 16 report from USA Facts, a nonprofit organization that conducts data analysis.