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The physician specialties with the least burnout
Public health and preventive medicine physicians reported having the least burnout of physician specialties, according to Medscape's latest report on physician burnout and depression. -
29 providers call on CMS to provide opioid alternatives
Twenty-nine healthcare providers are urging CMS to provide alternatives to opioids and incentivize non-opioid use. -
How healthcare education must evolve: 3 clinicians weigh in
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, governing bodies and organizations have revised criteria, documents, policies and guidelines to include precautions against the virus. Healthcare is constantly evolving, but is health education keeping pace? -
8 percent of physician assistants plan to leave: Study
A recent study found 30 percent of certified physician assistants reported at least one symptom of burnout, and almost 8 percent said they intended to leave their position in the next year. -
Medicare physician payments need overhaul — and fast — AMA says
Proposed Medicare cuts for physicians are both "unsustainable and unconscionable," the American Medical Association said in a Sept. 11 news release. -
Oregon system reminds patients to 'do no harm, make no threats'
Some hospitals are tightening security measures because of an increase of violence against their workers, including St. Charles Health System, a four-hospital system headquartered in Bend, Ore., according to The Bulletin. -
Physicians push politics from red to blue
Hershey, Pa., was once a one-party town. Like other communities in the country, the leftward change to its voter composition has coincided with the growth of the health system headquartered there, according to Politico. -
Leaders aren't immune to imposter syndrome: Advice
A Mayo Clinic survey found 25 percent of physicians experience "imposter syndrome," and leaders are not immune to the feeling. -
Waving a magic wand: What 9 leaders would change about healthcare
The healthcare system has many flaws that have become more pronounced since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Interest in hospital careers grew 20% among residents
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. -
Where 11 leaders want more collaboration in healthcare
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. -
Physician guilty of manslaughter can still practice, board says
The Colorado state medical board is allowing a physician convicted of reckless manslaughter to continue practicing medicine, CBS News reported Aug. 31. -
Nonphysician interpretation of diagnostic imaging jumps 26.9%: Study
A study found a 26.9 percent increase in diagnostic imaging interpretation done by nurse practitioners and physician assistants between 2016 and 2020. -
8 things to know about physician misbehavior on and off the job
The rate of physicians personally witnessing or experiencing misbehavior from another physician fell from 62 percent to 55 percent, Medscape reported Aug. 30. -
The era of lonely hospital physicians
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. -
6 lessons for US hospitals from the UK baby murder cases
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. -
The physician specialties with the most burnout
A recent American Medical Association survey found that emergency medicine physicians reported the most burnout of physician specialties. -
Court reinstates nurse who was terminated for refusing COVID-19 vaccine
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. -
Washington physician fined, license restricted for prescribing ivermectin
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. -
California PICU back in state compliance
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
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