As soon as they are clinically ready to leave the hospital, patients start counting the minutes until their discharge. But can you imagine waiting days, months or even years? By Dr. Anna Bayes, Allscripts - 9/18/18

A cardiothoracic surgeon and his wife were killed after their plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near Boston on Sept. 15, ABC 7 NY reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

The New England Journal of Medicine doubled down on its refusal to retract a 2016 paper co-authored by a Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth health policy professor who resigned last week after allegations of plagiarism, STAT reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

Emergency room staff treat more than 2,000 babies a year for injuries caused by infant walkers, leading American pediatricians to once again call for a ban on the products, according to NPR.  By Harrison Cook - 9/17/18

Fox News partnered with the National Merit Scholarship Program to create a memorial scholarship for former contributor Charles Krauthammer, MD, the network announced Sept. 13.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/17/18

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Marist College and Health Quest, a five-hospital system in LaGrangeville, N.Y., announced plans to construct a joint medical school during a press conference Sept. 12, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/13/18

Hal, a medical training robot that's just entering the commercial market, was "built to suffer," according to Wired.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/12/18

A Catholic priest with ties to Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center saw his "faculties to minister removed" in the Archdiocese of Boston after allegations he sexually abused a child in 2007, The Boston Globe reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/11/18

Forty-four million people, or 13 percent of Americans, live in a county with a primary care physician shortage, defined as less than one primary care physician per 2,000 people, according to a report from UnitedHealth Group.  By Megan Knowles - 9/11/18

While the New York City-based NYU School of Medicine announced plans to eliminate tuition for all current and incoming medical school students, leadership at Boston-based Harvard Medical School said the institution has no plans to follow suit, The Harvard Crimson reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/11/18

Key thoughts:  By Ken W. Altman MD PhD - 9/10/18

Following at least a dozen sexual harassment claims by media executives and former colleagues, Vanity Fair learned Les Moonves was also the subject of an article published by a Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine at USC professor who claimed the former CBS CEO and board chairman assaulted her during an appointment in 1999.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/10/18

Nearly 80 percent of medical school students indicated they have experienced burnout at least some of the time during their education, a recent report by Medscape found.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18

A physician leader at Texas Health Plano resigned earlier this week after his comments criticizing female physicians were published in a local medical journal and went viral on social media, according to The Dallas Morning News.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City placed a moratorium on student nominations to a prestigious medical honor society in May after students called attention to the nomination process' unfairness to minority students, NPR reports.  By Alyssa Rege - 9/6/18

The following article comes from Liam Collopy, Executive Vice President at Harden Communications: Establishing a “paper trail,” or writing articles on a regular basis for medical journals and healthcare publications, is an effective way for physicians to boost their credibility and increase their visibility with their constituents.  By Liam Collopy - 9/5/18

Product design and testing of health information technology systems should begin with the end in mind to improve the user experience. Ross Teague, Ph.D., director of user experience at Allscripts, shares six points his organization follows to ensure that products meet the needs of clinicians who use them for patient care. By Ross Teague, Ph.D., Director, User Experience, Allscripts - 9/5/18

Many pediatric practices are discovering that millennial parents (those born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s) have different expectations for their children’s health care than previous generations.  By Tina Joros, Allscripts - 9/4/18

Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital's board of directors said the decision to split with its anesthesiology services provider after 24 years is final, according to the Olean Times Herald.  By Alyssa Rege - 8/31/18

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is a safe, effective imaging modality with a rapidly expanding array of lifesaving, timesaving and cost-saving applications in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM).  By Jennifer R. Marin, MD, MSc - 8/30/18