Integration & Physician Issues

Banner Health clinics in Greeley, Colo., added two physicians to its staff specializing in LGBTQ care, The Greeley Tribune reported Oct. 6.

Here are three donations to medical schools over $10 million that Becker's has covered since Sept. 15:

Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center will construct a new medical education center to improve primary and psychiatric care, local news outlet WALB reported Oct. 5.

Male physicians receive significantly higher payments from medical companies compared with female physicians, according to a study published Sept. 28 Jama Surgery.

Patients are more likely to refer to female physicians by their first name in electronic messaging compared to male physicians, a study published Oct. 5 in JAMA Network Open found.

Neal Nathanson, MD, the former vice dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and pioneering HIV/AIDS and polio researcher, died of leukemia and pneumonia on Aug. 11, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Oct. 4. He was 94.

The U.S. healthcare system should "radically reorient" around relationships rather than viewing patient care as a series of individual encounters, three physicians said in an Oct. 4 Mayo Clinic Proceedings article. 

Physicians serving medical facilities in Santa Clara County, Calif., are speaking out against county management for the second time this year.

A California bill signed into law Oct. 3 gives physicians more time to interpret test results, allows patients to pick how they would like to receive medical scans and adds protections for sensitive teen data.

Steven Shelov, MD, will be retiring as dean of NYU Long Island School of Medicine on Jan. 2, 2023, it said Oct. 3.