President’s criticism of suits is rejected by lawyers association By Ameet Sachdev Tribune staff reporter http://www.chicagotribune.com President Bush again is taking jabs at medical malpractice lawyers and calling for nationwide tort reform. “I’m worried about frivolous lawsuits that are running up the cost of health care,” the president said on a visit to Caterpillar Inc.’s […]

Jim McPherson http://www.azcentral.com My heart skipped a beat when I saw that a trial lawyer was writing about Arizona’s physician shortage (“Vanishing physician scenario is a myth,” Arizona Republic, February 4, 2007).

WASHINGTON, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following statement was released today by Cecil B. Wilson, M.D., Board Chair of the American Medical Association: “Over the next eight years, Medicare payments to physicians will be slashed nearly 40 percent, while practice costs increase about 20 percent. Without adequate funding, physicians cannot make needed investments in health information technology […]

SooNews Staff http://www.soonews.ca This is an historic week for medicine in Northern Ontario. Medical graduates from across Canada will be in Sudbury and Thunder Bay interviewing to become part of Northern Ontario’s first fully-accredited and administered Medical Residency program. As Med School Dean Roger Strasser notes in the attached column, this influx of Medical Graduates, […]

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MARKET WIRE The Insurance professionals only source for News J. M. Woodworth Risk Retention Group (RRG) has registered with the New York Insurance Department to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in the State, Sanford D. Elsass, President and CEO of The Uni-Ter Group, announced. Uni-Ter manages the Company under contract to the […]

By Becky Johnson • Staff Writer http://www.smokymountainnews.com