Robert Fanning, MD, emergency room physician at Uvalde (Texas) Memorial Hospital, died when his vehicle veered into oncoming traffic soon after he finished a shift Thursday morning, according to the Uvalde Leader-News.
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Jerold F. Lucey, MD, who led innovations in pediatrics to improve the survival and health of premature babies, died Dec. 10 at age 91, according to an obituary in The New York Times.
Lifetime Health Medical Group plans to cut 500 jobs from its Western New York primary care offices, according to a Democrat and Chronicle report.
A study, published in JAMA Surgery, examined the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among at-risk physicians, namely surgeons and interventionalists.
A 43-year-old physician was found dead at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee early Tuesday morning after he reportedly threatened to kill himself and did not respond to negotiation attempts with police, according to multiple local…
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Charles Fraser, MD, surgeon-in-chief with Texas Children's Hospital and co-director of its heart program, will step down after 23 years with the institution and stop treating patients this spring, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act's first performance period for the clinician Quality Payment Program ends Dec. 31, and clinicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System have until March 31 to submit 2017 performance data, the American Hospital Association…
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System created the Atlantic Alliance, a physician-led clinically integrated network aimed at coordinating care between the health system and other New Jersey providers.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine in Edinburg, Texas, received a $2 million grant to increase the number of primary physicians in the Rio Grande Valley area, according to a Brownsville Herald report.
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