Although the number of internal medicine residents planning a general internal medicine career is about half of what it was 10 years ago, hospital medicine career plans increased by about 20 percent, according to a research letter published Aug. 28 in JAMA. 

Collaboration is a common buzzword in healthcare, and some leaders worry it can be merely a vague concept. But collaboration can yield results when combined with focus.

The Colorado state medical board is allowing a physician convicted of reckless manslaughter to continue practicing medicine, CBS News reported Aug. 31.

A study found a 26.9 percent increase in diagnostic imaging interpretation done by nurse practitioners and physician assistants between 2016 and 2020.

The rate of physicians personally witnessing or experiencing misbehavior from another physician fell from 62 percent to 55 percent, Medscape reported Aug. 30.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, labeled the nation's loneliness and isolation issue as an epidemic in May, and the healthcare industry lacks immunity to it, hospital leaders told Becker's. 

The case of Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital in Northern England who is now a convicted serial killer, has many wondering how to prevent and catch bad actors, an Aug. 29 editorial from the Chicago Tribune said.

A recent American Medical Association survey found that emergency medicine physicians reported the most burnout of physician specialties.

A judge reinstated a Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center nurse who was fired for refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19, The Buffalo News reported Aug. 28.

The Washington Medical Commission has fined a physician and restricted his medical license for prescribing ivermectin to patients as a treatment for COVID-19 and spreading misinformation, The Chronicle reported Aug. 25.

The California Department of Health Care Services has reversed the admission restriction it previously placed on Walnut Creek-based John Muir Health's the California Children’s

A growing number of organizations are seeking to recruit physicians from a limited pool of candidates, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."

Clinicians rely on the support of hundreds of other positions to make patient care possible, but many of those positions go unrecognized for their efforts.

There are about 1.07 million physicians actively working in the U.S., KFF Health News reported in May, and a study published Aug. 15 in JAMA only found 52 who spread misinformation about COVID-19. 

Every year, an estimated half a million children are evaluated for psychiatric emergencies in emergency departments — a figure that has increased over the past decade — that are unequipped to handle the crisis, three leading medical groups said in a new policy statement. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health have separately donated money to support continued healthcare and crisis intervention in Maui. 

A new American Heart Association scientific statement found that adequate levels of shared decision-making occur in only about 10 percent of face-to-face consultations.

A California physician had her license revoked after failing to complete the requirements of her probation, which were imposed after a patient's death, The Bakersfield Californian reported Aug. 10.

Violence against nurses, physicians and hospital staff continues to plague the healthcare industry, and despite multiple calls for action, in a recent poll from Becker's on LinkedIn, 23 percent of respondents said their hospital does not have a plan currently in place to protect workers.

When it comes to weaving AI into daily hospital work, executives are rushing the field while their employees hesitate on the sidelines.