An Indiana physician filed a lawsuit against Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Medical Group to keep it from enforcing a noncompete agreement, The Journal Gazette reported July 6.

Johnstown (Colo.) Heights Behavioral Health has been hit with an immediate jeopardy citation, the second one it has been issued since November 2022, ABC affiliate KMGH reported July 4.

The Supreme Court on June 29 ruled that U.S. colleges and universities cannot consider race as a factor for admissions in a pair of decisions industry leaders say could hinder efforts to create a more diverse healthcare workforce. 

Here are the latest employment numbers of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses and physicians who are not anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, or pathologists. 

The University of Pennsylvania Health System and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Alliance of Minority Physicians received a grant to expand its diversity program.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a law April 6, allowing international medical graduates to bypass U.S. residency training and enter into practice as a licensed physician. Now, nearly one year out from when the law will go into full effect, some are expressing hesitancy and others are looking forward to the change.

Before the pandemic, around 23 percent of physicians reported experiencing targeted harassment, but new research published June 14 in JAMA from Northwestern University in Chicago, found post-COVID that number has grown to nearly 66 percent of physicians. 

Some view artificial intelligence as a threat to job security and quality care, but Stuart Schnitt, MD, pathologist and chief of breast oncologic pathology at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, sees AI as the tool that can lead to better patient outcomes and democratization of care.

Hospital culture can prevent unnecessary medical errors, yet most hospitals are slow to adopt a framework that prevents adverse events, Christine Schuster, RN, president and CEO of Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Health, wrote in an opinion piece published June 25 on MedPage Today.

Healthcare leaders have attributed physician burnout and frustration to increased paperwork burden, prior authorization, work-life balance, loss of autonomy, lack of community support and a lack of trust. While many physicians are leaving the profession, leaders are working to bring joy back to medicine.

Medical malpractice cases may soon begin to emerge spurred by the denial of abortion care particularly for women who face life-threatening pregnancies, KFF Health News reported June 23.

The sources of physicians' frustration the last few years have been numerous, from administrative burdens to strained relationships with patients to dwindling autonomy. 

At a press conference held June 21, representatives from Regional One Health and LeBonheur Children's Hospital, both in Memphis, Tenn., joined a growing number of healthcare leaders to publicly call on policymakers to do more to address gun violence, ABC affiliate station WATN reported. 

The National Resident Matching Program published its first demographic characteristic of applicants in the main residency match from 2022 and 2023 report.

More than 60 percent of OB-GYNs say the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade one year ago has worsened pregnancy-related mortality and made it more difficult to manage emergencies related to pregnancy, according to a new KFF survey of 569 OB-GYNs. 

Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health's medical group has done away with noncompete clauses from its physicians' contracts, enabling them to join competing hospitals or health systems without consequence, a spokesperson for the health system told Becker's.

Dozens of university professors and organizations wrote letters to Mayo Clinic protesting the suspension of a physician who publicly criticized the National Institutes of Health, CNN reported June 16.

Medical eponyms, or conditions that are named after former physician leaders and experts in medicine, often have dark roots — and although their continued phase-out is supported by top medical groups including the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization, some experts argue against this, The New York Times reported June 19.

Atlanta-based Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researchers found women, minorities and LGBTQ people in academic medicine experience higher rates of sexual harassment, cyber incivility and negative workplace climates — leading to worse mental health.

The University of Maryland-Baltimore has awarded Loki, a 5-year-old therapy dog, a "dogtorate" for helping deliver "hero healing kits" to nurses during the pandemic, People reported June 15.