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http://www.marketwatch.com FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Independent rating agency A.M. Best has again rated Medical Protective “A++”, yesterday affirming its highest possible financial strength rating. Medical Protective remains the only dedicated healthcare liability insurer to receive the highest financial strength rating from both S&P and A.M. Best.

By Michael P. Tremoglie Homepage The obstetrics crisis in Pennsylvania is growing. Last month, the maternity units at Brandywine Hospital near Coatesville, Chestnut Hill Hospital in the affluent Chestnut Hill section of  Philadelphia and Central Montgomery Medical Center in Lansdale, all closed. So far, 17 maternity wards have closed in Philadelphia since 1997. According to […]

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. http://www.nytimes.com One morning during my medical residency many years ago, one of the senior doctors pulled me aside after rounds, as was his routine, to review the status of patients in the intensive care unit. A few had single-organ failure — their lungs weren’t doing well, or their hearts weren’t […]

http://www.marketwatch.com EAST LANSING, Mich., Dec 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Mary Beth Bolton, MD, FACP, a Detroit internal medicine specialist, has been named “Woman Physician of the Year” by the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) Doctor Bolton, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer with Health Alliance Plan (HAP) since 2000, was recognized by […]

http://online.wsj.com Illinois Trial Lawyers Association President Philip Harnett Corboy Jr. is entitled to his opinion about why medical liability insurance premiums have stabilized somewhat in Illinois since a 2005 state law reasonably limited plaintiff recoveries for wholly subjective noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering (Letters, Dec. 8). Despite Mr. Corboy’s insinuation to the contrary, […]

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Ace Stryker http://www.heraldextra.com One Utah County doctor is hoping to bring back the days of the personal physician, complete with house calls. In many ways, the concept is a new spin on an old ideal. Dr. Wesley Wylie is ditching the weathered travel-by-carriage-with-leather-medicine-bag-in-tow image, promising in its place 24/7 direct personal communication by cell phone […]

By ALAN J. ORTBALS Home The gains that Illinois has made in the past three years regarding access to health care could quickly be reversed, depending on the ruling of the Illinois Supreme Court in the case of Lebron v Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Oral arguments were heard in November. The decision is expected to be […]