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3 healthcare systems launch residency programs
Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages. -
Hospitals face fiercer competition for the worst-paying specialty
Primary care physicians are the gateway to more expensive specialists, and health systems face intensifying competition for them thanks to insurers, retailers, investment firms and tech start-ups, Bloomberg reports. -
Improving efficiency, outcomes and revenue with documentation solutions
Healthcare organizations and physicians are under tremendous pressure. In addition to the burden of the pandemic, providers must comply with more regulation and provide an improved patient experience while operating with lower margins. Physicians today have more responsibility and stress than ever. -
US primary care physician workforce per 100,000 capita
The District of Columbia has the most physicians per 100,000 capita in the country, while Utah has the fewest, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data published Feb. 7. -
Oklahoma won't discipline physicians prescribing unproven COVID-19 treatments
Physicians in Oklahoma are not prohibited from prescribing unapproved treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for the off-label purpose of treating COVID-19 patients, the state attorney general's office said Feb. 8. -
Physicians: Let's build on-ramps for next COVID-19 surges, too
As public health experts and political leaders construct off-ramps from the highly regulated highway of COVID-19 safety measures, many physicians are encouraging just as much effort toward on-ramps to guide public health measures when the virus picks up again. -
States ranked by percentage of female physicians
There are currently 1,061,141 active physicians in the U.S., according to data published by Kaiser Family Foundation Feb. 7. -
America's Physician Groups names Susan Dentzer CEO
The national association representing 170,000 physicians will welcome Susan Dentzer as its president and CEO in March. -
Tower Health fires physician accused of prescribing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
A Pennsylvania physician accused of prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 has been terminated from Tower Health, PennLive reported Feb. 4. -
HHS gives $19.2M to train physicians, dentists in rural, underserved areas
HHS is making $19.2 million available to support and expand training of primary care physician and dental residents in rural and underserved areas. -
Leveraging AI to relieve physician stress in turbulent times
Physicians are more stressed and burned out then ever before - and administrative burdens are a big contributing factor. Healthcare organizations can alleviate some of this stress with the help of AI technology. -
Medical boards disciplined 8 physicians in 1 year over misinformation
Medical boards have penalized eight physicians for furthering COVID-19, vaccine and therapeutic misinformation since January 2021, Politico reports. -
Amid shortage, COVID-19 antibody treatments raffled off
Hospitals have resorted to creating their own lottery systems to allocate a scarce supply of COVID-19 antibody treatments for immunocompromised patients, NPR reported Jan. 25. -
Mission Hospital ECMO team wins North Carolina Healthcare Association award
The extracorporeal membrane oxygenation team at Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital is the recipient of the North Carolina Healthcare Association's Healthcare Hero Award, the hospital said Jan. 24. -
TikTok, MD
Social media has been a hotbed of health falsehoods throughout the pandemic. That's why some physicians first flocked toward TikTok — and stayed. -
Viewpoint: Two years of broken healthcare, and 'worry that fixes are not going to come'
The pandemic exposed the myriad inefficiencies and shortcomings of healthcare that workers have long managed to live with. Megan Ranney, MD, a practicing emergency medicine physician, thought the crisis would fuel the resources and political will to finally repair the system. -
Burnout up 5 percentage points for physicians
Forty-seven percent of physicians reported feeling burned out last year, up from 42 percent in 2020, according to Medscape's 2021 Physician Burnout & Depression Report published Jan. 21. -
Georgia physicians make public plea for help slowing COVID-19 surge
Physicians from health systems in the Atlanta metropolitan area are urging the public to help reduce COVID-19 spread, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. -
Viewpoint: Many unvaccinated, critical COVID-19 patients still distrust those caring for them
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, some unvaccinated patients, even those who become critically ill, still deny the virus is behind their deterioration and vehemently distrust the physicians caring for them, a critical care physician said in an op-ed published Jan. 20 in The Los Angeles Times. -
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine's founding dean dies
Bonita Stanton, MD, founding dean of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and president of Academic Enterprise at Hackensack Meridian Health, died Jan. 19.
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