A new Vermont Human Rights Commission investigative report found that black employees at the Berlin-based Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital have been subject to racial harassment by both patients and coworkers, according to the Burlington Free Press.
Integration & Physician Issues
Officials at San Antonio-based North Central Baptist Hospital alerted new parents to a caller who may be seeking personal information and asking perverted questions, according to KSAT.
In the wake of sexual assault convictions involving physicians, medical providers can and should do more to protect patients, argues Altaf Saadi, MD, first-year fellow at UCLA's National Clinical Scholars Program in Los Angeles, in a STAT op-ed.
Jon Heavey, MD, an emergency room physician with Cleveland Clinic and venture capitalist, will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
A black patient without identification receiving treatment at Beaumont Hospital-Farmington Hills (Mich.) was unintentionally assigned a racially insensitive identifier by the hospital's EHR, according to Fox 2 News.
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More Americans are seeking care for chronic health issues like osteoporosis, arthritis and back pain. However, the pool of rheumatologists able to treat these conditions is decreasing in the U.S., according to two recent studies.
Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University terminated an organ transplant policy Feb. 7 after it was used to deny a liver transplant to an undocumented woman a day earlier, reports KATU.
“Chronic diseases and conditions—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and arthritis—are among the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems,” according to the CDC.
The American Osteopathic Association said Tuesday more than 1,600 DO medical school seniors and graduates matched into accredited residency programs in 25 specialties, according to a recent Medscape report.
Lawrence Eugene "Joe" Maurer, MD, co-founder of Boulder (Colo.) Medical Center, died Jan. 24. He was 103 years old, according to an obituary published in The Daily Camera.