As it does each year, Medscape has recognized 26 of the best and worst physicians in medicine, healthcare, research and health policy.
Integration & Physician Issues
Rachel Brown, MD, former associate dean of Columbia-based University of Missouri School of Medicine, sued the school Monday, claiming racial bias forced her from her position in an intentional change of leadership amid efforts to improve student diversity, according to…
A Missouri law allowing medical school graduates to treat patients without having completed a designated residency program — the first law of its kind in the U.S. — went into effect after nearly three years, according to 41 Action News.
A children's hospital neurosurgeon on his way to Seattle said he spent roughly two hours administering first aid to individuals injured Monday morning after an Amtrak train derailed off a bridge and onto an interstate highway, according to KATU-2 News.
For the first time in the nation's history, more women enrolled in U.S. medical schools than men in 2017, according to data released Dec. 18 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Mark A. Rosing, MD, chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department at St. Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., told The New York Times he tells prospective candidates they may have a hard time leaving the hospital to pursue other opportunities…
United Physicians, a 2,386-member physician group based in Bingham Farms, Mich., may depart from Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health and its clinically integrated network, Beaumont Care Partners, Crain's Detroit Business reports.
Time's 2017 Person of the Year cover features the faces of five women who represent "The Silence Breakers" and serve as early examples for the thousands of people who have come forward in recent months and relayed their experiences of…
Fed up with the U.S. healthcare system, many American physicians are heading to Canada to practice medicine in an environment where they don't have to consider whether their patients will be able to afford treatment, NPR reports.
East Lansing-based Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Dean William Strampel, DO, resigned Thursday morning for "medical reasons." His resignation comes amid widespread criticism of his handling of the victims who came forward against Larry Nassar, DO, a former…