http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com I am starting to see some of these efforts as well in my daily travels and conversations…my personal opinion here is too that much of the dignity associated with health care is being eroded with new constraints and overhead arriving almost daily at the practice door…when you compare how a practice operates today compared […]

# Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and Cornell rank lowest By Eric Eyre Staff writer http://sundaygazettemail.com No medical school in the nation is graduating more future family doctors than Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. About 22 percent of Marshall’s medical school graduates entered family practice residencies last year. That tied Florida State University […]

By Harry Wessel | Sentinel Staff Writer http://www.orlandosentinel.com With his 3-year-old, A.J., in tow and month-old twins at home, Florida Hospital surgeon Dr. Alric Simmonds takes a timeout at work to sing the praises of hospital employment. “It’s not that the hours are less — you’re on call, you carry a pager, you’re accessible. But […]

http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com The Doctors Co. followed an aggressive prescription for growth Tuesday. The Napa, Calif.-based private physician-owned medical malpractice insurer reached an agreement to acquire publicly traded SCPIE Holdings Inc., also a major healthcare liability insurance provider, for approximately $281 million in cash. Doctors is offering $28 per share in cash, which represents a 27% premium […]

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ US doctors may not have time to be out of the office with colleagues playing golf anymore, but they might be found clicking away online (on a social networking site) instead. And the demise of doctors’ weekday golf availability and their time on Sermo.com, the US social networking site for physicians, are very much […]

By Joe Fahy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When she heard that her family physician, Dr. Joel Warshaw, was scaling back the size of his medical practice to provide better service, Mary Cindrich was immediately interested. Beginning Jan. 1, he is starting the area’s first “concierge” internal medical practice for adults and older children. A local pediatrician, Dr. […]

By Judith Graham | Tribune staff reporter Your doctor probably knows it. Medical organizations certainly do. But most patients have no idea. The annual physical examination — that encounter when a physician looks in your throat, listens to your heart, pokes your abdomen, checks your reflexes and tests your blood — is no longer a […]

By GARDINER HARRIS NY TIMES There are bagels and fruit in the morning, sandwiches at lunch, fresh cookies in the afternoon and an occasional restaurant dinner, but many of the doctors who routinely accept these goodies from pharmaceutical sales representatives say they see sales people for the educational messages they bring, not the food. Maybe […]

Insurers in several other states cut rates or plan to keep them stable for 2008. By Amy Lynn Sorrel, AMNews staff. http://www.ama-assn.org While physicians in some states will see a break in their medical liability premiums next year, Maryland insurance officials are questioning a proposal by the state’s largest medical liability insurance carrier to issue […]