The out-of-office pediatrician gets the call no one wants to hear: a mother has gone into labor and the baby’s heart rate is decelerating – a life threatening condition.
Integration & Physician Issues
As frontline responders to gun-related shootings and deaths, healthcare providers have an obligation to talk about gun violence and advocate for more research and policy-based prevention strategies, according to a blog in Health Affairs.
Several women spoke to NBC 5 News about the sexual harassment they witnessed at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, claiming the behavior has been going on for years.
Tweets by the National Rifle Association telling medical professionals to "stay in their lane" drew new criticism after two medical professionals, including one physician, were killed in a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19, USA Today…
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System entered a five-year contract with General Motors in August to provide healthcare services for the company's salaried employees and their families.
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The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs studied the growing patient trend of medical tourism and provided six insights into how physicians should handle ethical issues if they arise, according to AMA Wire.
Two of the at least four individuals killed during a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19 were an emergency room physician and a first-year pharmacy resident, USA Today reports.
People are bearing more responsibility for selecting and paying for their own care, and those costs are rising rapidly.
Independent physicians and those working in physician-owned practices tend to be happier with work than hospital-employed physicians, according to a survey from Geneia, a provider of healthcare data, technology, business and education solutions.
Members of the local community and physicians at Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System are pushing back against a policy directive to cut independent physicians' admitting privileges, Naples Daily News reports.