Integration & Physician Issues

A New York trauma surgeon was found stabbed to death in his apartment Sunday afternoon. His 11-year-old daughter discovered his body, according to the New York Daily News.

Serge Rasskazoff, MD, recently submitted his letter of resignation to Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center officials. Dr. Rasskazoff was the hospital's only neurosurgeon on staff, the Watertown Daily Times reports.

A second hospital in the U.K. has petitioned the nation's High Court of Justice to switch off life support for an 18-month-old infant — a case some say is similar to that of Charlie Gard's, which drew fire from critics…

The average student debt accumulated throughout medical school has increased 123.4 percent between 1992 and 2017, according to a new analysis from CometFi, a loan refinancing company. 

Women training to be physicians experience a greater increase in depressive symptoms during their internship year than their male counterparts, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Meridian-based Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, the state's first medical school, opened its application process for its inaugural class of students, KMVT-11 News.

Federal funding for higher education research and development increased approximately 1.4 percent between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2016, according to a Nov. 30 report released by the National Science Foundation.

James Ellis, MD, a physician at Waterloo, Iowa-based Covenant Medical Center said emergency rooms across the state are flooded with patients seeking care for mental health issues, according to KWWL.

A man who was being evaluated in the mental health unit at Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center escaped Wednesday, according to WCAX.

Cheri A. Blauwet, MD, a sports medicine physician at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, noted in a recent op-ed the barrier to entry for prospective physicians with disabilities is not skill…