Southwestern Vermont Health Care has debuted a new policy to prevent aggressive and violent behavior toward its healthcare staff, the Bennington, Vt.-based system said Feb. 2. Like many hospitals across the nation, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center has seen an increase…
Integration & Physician Issues
Just as COVID-19 led to a much higher number of deaths for the public than what would have been anticipated without the virus, during the same time physicians in the workforce saw more than 600 excess deaths among their profession.
Nearly two-thirds of physicians report experiencing burnout, but the term burnout misses the larger issues: Physicians are demoralized and losing faith in the systems they work for, Eric Reinhart, MD, a physician at Evanston-based Northwestern University, wrote in a Feb.…
Washington, D.C., has the highest percentage of female physicians at 49 percent, and Idaho has the lowest at 26 percent.
A Maryland Senate bill wants to create a task force to identify why its hospital emergency departments have the longest wait times in the country and find ways to remedy the issue, NBC affiliate WBAL reported Feb. 2.
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Eyeing solutions to the national shortage of infectious disease professionals, a survey commissioned by the Infectious Diseases Society of America found that 65 percent of U.S. adults support forgiveness of federal student loan debt for infectious disease professionals as a…
Yale researchers found a machine-learning program could predict which physicians would leave the job and identified four variables that lead to high departure risk.
If reelected, former President Donald Trump says he will aim to punish physicians and hospitals who provide gender-affirming care to minors, according to a video published on his campaign website Feb. 1.
Last year, 53 percent of physicians reported burnout. Among them, emergency medicine specialists had the highest rate at 65 percent, according to Medscape's latest report on physician burnout and depression.
A condition that affects 42 percent of adults in the U.S. is one that medical schools only spend around 10 hours training future physicians on, a new study found. Obesity was formally declared an epidemic by the World Health Organization…