The California Senate passed a bill Aug. 25 that would allow regulators to punish physicians for spreading misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19.
Integration & Physician Issues
Congress should focus on enacting permanent solutions to address medical student debt and the "shrinking primary care workforce," Sterling Ransone Jr., MD, wrote for The Hill Aug. 27.
Most clinicians in the U.S. safety net practices reported "moral distress" during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Aug. 26 report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine — a historically Black institution — have joined forces with the intent of improving health equity by training diverse clinicians.
The Biden administration on Aug. 24 released plans to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for individuals earning less than $125,000 a year. While medical residents and nursing school graduates may benefit from the relief, fully trained, practicing…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health equity as, “Every person having the opportunity to attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other…
Medscape surveyed 1,500 physicians on negative behaviors they have witnessed physicians undertake outside of work.
Medical chiefs from four of US News & World Report's best hospitals or health systems recently spoke with Becker's Hospital Review about the best advice they've received.
Forty-one percent of physicians have seen other clinicians behave inappropriately in the workplace, up from 35 percent in 2021, Medscape's 2022 "Physicians Behaving Badly: Stress and Hardship Trigger Misconduct" report found.
The Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has had a domino effect on all aspects of reproductive health as clinicians work to navigate what it means for their practices and patients alike.