Integration & Physician Issues

Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. elect to replace hip and knee joints with an artificial implant.

  Jackson, Miss.-based G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center reportedly continued to pay Mohamed Eleraky, MD, PhD, his annual $339,177 salary despite suspending his operating privileges in 2013, according to WLTX-19 News.

Police are investigating whether a 40-year-old medical researcher, whose body was found in an eighth-floor bathroom of New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Sunday, suffered a fatal overdose, New York Daily News reports.

Wendy Colson, RN, noticed women in her California-based breastfeeding support group could not keep their milk supply up, so she began baking nutritious "Boobie Bars" with lactation-supporting herbs to help new mothers produce more breast milk — a venture that…

  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to report the majority of its providers after concerns were raised regarding their ability to provide clinical care, according to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Healthcare leaders often express concern about physician burnout, but they rarely make physicians feel valued or heard, which would be the solution they are searching for, Jamie Wells, MD, writes in an op-ed for the American Council on Science and…

A surgeon's gender influences the amount of referrals they receive from a fellow physician, especially after poor surgical outcomes, according to a working paper from Heather Sarsons, PhD candidate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Police reportedly discovered the body of a 40-year-old medical researcher at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City Sunday, the New York Daily News reports.

Credentialing is an essential process for hospitals employing physicians. While tedious, hospitals that prioritize credentialing achieve greater return on investment than their counterparts that do not.

The University of Houston System regents approved a motion this week to create a college of medicine at the university, according to The Texas Tribune.