Most depressed emergency physicians say that they are "easily exasperated with patients" as a result of their depression, according to a new Medscape report.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System created a $10 million tuition fund to grow its own workforce amid current labor market challenges, according to The Advocate, a Louisiana news outlet.

Annual performance reviews for physicians often use counterproductive performance metrics that do not align with healthcare organizations' main values and strategic goals, according to Medscape.

Harvard Medical School faculty will vote Feb. 12 on an advisory resolution to divest the university's endowment tied to fossil fuel companies and "declare a climate crisis," according to student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.

The new strain of coronavirus has sickened 45,206 and resulted in 1,117 deaths worldwide, and healthcare workers caring for these patients face a high risk of contracting the infection themselves.

Major hospitals and health systems backed a bill in Pennsylvania to give nurse practitioners full practice authority, the Elwood City Ledger reports.

Only 36 percent of hospitals in Texas have reported a physician to HHS' National Practitioner Data Bank, meant to track healthcare professionals who do not meet professional standards, reports ABC affiliate WFAA.

A physician with Daly City, Calif.-based Seton Medical Center, which is at risk of closing, is speaking out against the billionaire owner who promised to revive the facility, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Texas' physician population has been increasing at a record pace for the past decade, according to new data from the Texas Medical Association.

Coastal Medical, an independent primary care provider with more than 500 employees, plans to join Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan.

Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center-Fort Worth (Texas) plans to launch a residency training program in 2021 to help address the area's physician shortage.

The only neurologist practicing at Onancock, Va.-based Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital abruptly left his post this week, reports the Eastern Shore Post.

Detroit Medical Center will lose accreditation for its neurosurgery training program in June after the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education denied the hospital's appeal, according to The Detroit News.

Allina Health System in Minneapolis bought Apple Valley (Minn.) Medical Clinic before a backdrop of ongoing consolidation among physician groups in the area, according to the Star Tribune.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix has awarded eight students with primary care physician scholarships.

Female physicians often hide unique characteristics that distinguish them from male colleagues, conforming to "an antiquated stereotype of what it means to be a physician," Nisha Mehta, MD, a radiologist in Charlotte, N.C., wrote in an op-ed for Medscape.

More physicians are taking to TikTok, a social media platform where users share content via short videos, to disperse medical lessons, according to The New York Times.

Twenty-one medical students of Tucson-based University of Arizona will receive free tuition for their commitment to providing primary care in underserved communities in the state, according to News 4 Tucson.

Memphis (Tenn.) Obstetrics and Gynecological Association absorbed Women's Health Specialists in Germantown, Tenn., effective Feb. 1, according to Commercial Appeal.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare heard concerns that a recently acquired clinic in North Carolina is lacking a full-time physician, according to the Citizen Times.