Integration & Physician Issues

A female employee was shot outside the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by her boyfriend March 2, reports KHOU.

Multistate licensure for healthcare practitioners is a solution whose time has come.

Failed back surgery syndrome is the diagnosis given to people who continue to have pain after back or neck surgery.

Roanoke-based Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine founding Dean Cynda Ann Johnson, MD, revealed plans to retire Feb. 27 after 10 years at the institution.

Medical school faculty's ethics and behavior should match the lessons they aim to teach students in the classroom, according to a paper by the American College of Physicians published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine Feb. 27.

The human brain has an enormous capacity for work. Ironically, it is currently impossible for humans to understand the extent of this capacity due to medical science’s limited understanding of how the brain operates.

Utah legislators advanced a bill to the state Senate Feb. 26 that would prohibit hospitals and health systems in the state from testing a physician's competency through a cognitive test after they reach a certain age, according to Desert News.

Hospital leaders identified Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente as a top healthcare  organization in thought leadership, innovation and cost of high-quality care, according to a Reaction Data survey.

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The University of Houston named Stephen J. Spann, MD, founding dean of the planned UH College of Medicine Feb. 26.