Maternity care will be the first major service line to transition out of Dayton, Ohio-based Good Samaritan Hospital as the hospital prepares to close by the end of the year, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Integration & Physician Issues
Portland, Ore.-based OHSU School of Medicine is one of the first medical schools in the nation to require students pass a new test examining their ability to be compassionate communicators, according to Kaiser Health News.
Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and writer for The New Yorker, says tackling complex issues such as rising healthcare costs and gun violence is a lengthy process, but can be achieved within our lifetimes,…
More than 80 current and former New York City-based Columbia University students and postdoctoral fellows signed a petition urging university officials to publicize why they ended Thomas Jessell's, PhD, administrative positions at the institution and closed his laboratory, according to…
A New York physician filed a counter-lawsuit in state Supreme Court March 6 against a former resident who claimed the physician repeatedly raped her while she completed rotations at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center, according to the Democrat…
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As hospital executives, doctors and healthcare workers, we all have a duty to promote the fact that March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month.
The American Board of Internal Medicine has produced evidence that maintenance of certification requirements could be meaningful for physicians.
Almost half of medical students said they suffered from burnout before they reached residency, increasing their risk of depression and medical school dropout, according to a Medscape report.
Officials at Orlando-based University of Central Florida College of Medicine fired a high-level executive last month following an investigation into his behavior, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
A transcript of the court proceedings during which a grand jury decided not to indict a former Cleveland Clinic surgeon accused of rape may be released to the public after the jury was reportedly given a copy of the surgeon's…