In a recent blog post, The Greeley Company discusses "laundry list" privileging, OPPE and FPPE.
Integration & Physician Issues
Although 23 percent of residents have no medical school debt, the same percentage has to pay back debt of more than $300,000, according to Medscape's Residents Salary & Debt Report.
The University of Pennsylvania in Philidalphia is adding a course in empathy, service and homelessness to medical students' curriculum, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Alan S. Rabson, MD, a lead figurehead in defining the field of cancer pathology and head administration of the National Cancer Institute, died July 4 at age 92 due to complications of vascular disease, according to The New York Times.
Milton Thomas Edgerton Jr., MD, a renowned plastic surgeon who pioneered multiple breakthrough procedures in plastic surgery, died at age 96, according to The Washington Post.
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Many of the physician practices that health systems seek to acquire are owned by physicians who are not particularly interested in selling their practices.
Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there's reason for optimism in the fight against chronic diseases like these.
A recent blog post by Jennifer Bolduc, MD, of Allscripts discusses what one Allscripts practice is doing to maximize the time patients and providers spend together during a medical office visit.
Primary care physicians who own or act as a partner at independent practices are more engaged and more productive than PCPs employed by healthcare organizations, according to a recent survey cited by athenahealth contributor Chris Hayhurst.
A Texas physician who was allowed to continue practicing medicine despite 17 women accusing him of sexual misconduct, lost his license in June after a male patient came forward with similar claims, according to the Statesman.