Anticompetitive consolidation and underinvestment in primary care are hurting public health, Shawn Martin, the executive vice president and chief executive officer for the American Academy of Family Physicians said in a June 8 statement to the Senate Committee on Finance.

Medical schools and residency programs need to train future physicians how to treat substance use disorder, according to a June 13 opinion piece written for The Washington Post.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health is using an artificial intelligence model that can predict the chances of a patient's death and readmission.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System formed a multidisciplinary team to promote safety and de-escalation after recording 648 instances of workplace violence in 2021. Since creating the team, violence in the system's emergency departments has decreased 60 percent. 

An immediate jeopardy designation by CMS represents "the most severe and egregious threat to the health and safety of recipients, as well as carries the most serious sanctions" — but, even if a hospital is cited for such an event it may not affect your hospital's safety grade. 

A Michigan pulmonary and sleep physician died June 3 after being hit by a vehicle, MLive reported June 5.

Los Angeles-based USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics researchers found comparing physicians to their peers can improve job satisfaction and performance in quality care.

A physician accused of misdiagnosing possibly up to 600 patients at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been terminated, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported June 8.

Details are emerging about three Mayo Clinic employees at a lab in Phoenix who were exposed to deadly bacteria in 2021 known as Burkholderia pseudomallei — sometimes called Whitmore’s disease. It is the same bacteria the CDC issued an endemic warning about, according to U.S. News & World Report. 

Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center may make leadership and internal quality changes based on the findings of an internal report prompted by a newspaper's investigation, New Hampshire Public Radio reported June 7.

Few internal medicine physicians enter the field intending to work in medically underserved areas of the U.S., but a new study sheds light on what draws in the ones who choose to do so.

The physician shortage in the U.S. is common knowledge. Why don't more donors put their money toward tuition for people to become physicians? 

Similar to what the nursing industry is seeing, a growing group of U.S. physicians are taking a gig approach to employment and ditching the traditional path of working for a health system or practice. 

A home invasion and shooting in Beaverton, Mich., led to the lockdown 25-bed MyMichigan Medical Center Gladwin the morning of June 6.

Healthcare is advancing more swiftly by the year with new technologies, treatment options and artificial intelligence models hitting hospitals across the world.

More than 500 physicians in Indiana have signed a letter urging the state's medical licensing board to reconsider its decision to reprimand an obstetrician-gynecologist for mentioning a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion case, NPR reported June 3. 

Many rural areas don't have enough primary care physicians, but osteopathic physicians, or DOs, could help fill the gap in rural care, NPR reported June 5.

A recent study found one-third of physicians are sued in their lifetime, but female physicians have nearly half as many claims against them as male physicians. Ron King, CEO of healthcare marking and practice management consulting firm Vanguard Communications, offered a few reasons why in an opinion piece on MedPage Today on May 28.

An OB-GYN accused of fertility fraud was killed in a plane crash in Orleans County, N.Y., on May 28, the Democrat and Chronicle reported May 30.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a Columbus, Ohio, children's hospital with two violations and proposed a $18,000 fine after it found the hospital failed to protect its employees from violent patients.