The Florida Department of Health has banned a physician from treating women after he inappropriately touched a patient's breasts multiple times, the Miami Herald reports.

Almost half of physicians would take a pay cut to work fewer hours, according to a survey conducted by Medscape. 

About 13 percent of physicians older than 70 years showed cognitive deficits that would impair their ability to practice medicine during mandatory testing at a Connecticut hospital, according to a Medpage Today report.

A majority of Chicago-based Community First Medical Center's emergency room physicians are quitting and heading to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers in Evergreen Park, Ill., according to Crain's Chicago Business.

The board of Baltimore-based Morgan State University gave the school a green light to begin evaluating strategic partners to create a new osteopathic medical school, according to a Jan. 9 announcement.

Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center's department of internal medicine created an official, four-physician division for allergy and immunology care and research, it announced Jan. 9.

Alexander Muckerman, from ECG Management Consultants, discusses concierge medicine's popularity among indepedent practice providers. 

Fifty-two physicians from Philadelphia's Drexel Medicine joined Tower Health Medical Group on Jan. 1, as part of an accelerated process to place Drexel staff in new roles after the Hahnemann University Hospital closure last year.

Houston Methodist Hospital created a "rejuvenation station" within its emergency room where staff can take breaks and get away from stress, according to Fox 26.

Des Moines (Iowa) University is the first medical school in the nation to require courses on mental healthcare, according to local NBC affiliate WHO TV.

Princeton University economists and Nobel Prize winners Anne Case, PhD, and Angus Deaton, PhD, have some choice words about physicians and their contribution to the healthcare cost problem in the U.S.

Trinity Health of New England, a nonprofit clinically integrated network of hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has expanded its care network, according to Mass Live.

Maine hospitals and health systems are working to develop internal policies for providers after a law went into effect last fall that allows patients with terminal illness to request life-ending medication, the Bangor Daily News reports.  

Most osteopathic medical students — a whopping 80 percent — reported a low sense of personal achievement in a recent study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Nine cardiologists who left CHI Health's Nebraska Heart Institute in June 2018 to form their own practice can no longer perform procedures at CHI Health Nebraska Heart, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. 

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health responded to concerns from surgeons and nurses about staff shortages by hiring more providers and increasing access to management, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia filed for bankruptcy and closed last year. The aftershocks are still affecting the nearly 1,000 physicians who worked at the hospital when it shut down, according to The Wall Street Journal.

St. Louis-based SSM Health and the Missouri Foundation for Health are helping fund Missouri's first addiction medicine fellowship at St. Louis University School of Medicine, reports St. Louis Public Radio, the local NPR station.

Hawaii is short an estimated 509 to 820 physicians, which represents between 17 percent to more than 27 percent of the current workforce, according to an annual state report from the University of Hawaii.  

Jacksonville (Fla.) University will begin offering two online patient safety degrees for hospital nurses, physicians, administrators and other healthcare professionals in January, according to The Florida Times-Union.