Business of Medicine
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Physicians react: Climate change and other social issues
Around half of physicians rated climate change among their five most important issues, according to results of a Medscape survey.
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Med students dismayed that residency match process won’t change
Many publicly stated that they believed the change could reduce stress.
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New Medicare physician fee schedule leaves docs fuming over pay cuts
Physician groups’ initial reactions centered on an across-the-board reduction of 4.4% in the conversion factor.
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Working while sick: Why doctors don’t stay home when ill
Only 2% of respondents said they never come to work unwell, in a Medscape survey.
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Locked-in syndrome malpractice case ends with $75 million verdict against docs
“Cases that elicit significant and sometimes decisive sympathy include locked-in syndrome, permanent vegetative state, injury to the sexual or...
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Medicare fines for high hospital readmissions drop, but nearly 2,300 facilities are still penalized
“The COVID pandemic did a lot of really unprecedented things to care patterns of hospitals.”
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Legal and malpractice risks when taking call
Physicians who violate the bylaws may have their privileges restricted or removed, and could be sued for malpractice even if they never treated...
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Impaired communication predicts coercive inpatient psychiatric care
Patients with poor communication abilities were at increased risk for involuntary inpatient admission and coercive measures.
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Would a national provider directory save docs’ time, help patients?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking for comment on its proposal for the first-ever nationwide directory of health care...
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COVID lawsuits have arrived: Which doctors are at risk?
One factor may be that physicians were doing the best they could at the time but that the pandemic affected the extent of care they could provide...
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Are doctors savers or spenders?
Medscape polled 468 U.S. physicians and 159 living outside of the United States.