http://www.marketwatch.com A.M. Best Co. has released a new methodology, “Securitization of Period-Certain and Life-Contingent Structured Settlements,” which describes how A.M. Best rates securitizations collateralized by structured settlements. A structured settlement is an agreement between a claimant and a defendant, whereby the claimant agrees to settle a lawsuit in exchange for periodic payments to be made […]

Web posts offer insight into the profession, but also raise patient privacy issues. By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer For physicians of a certain age, the weekly teaching session known as grand rounds is a ritual steeped in formality and tradition. Presided over by the profession’s graybeards, grand rounds are attended with white […]

Admission to Miami-Dade College’s trailblazing midwifery program was suspended Friday — a sign of the financial challenges afflicting MDC and other schools. BY ERIKA BERAS http://www.miamiherald.com In another sign of the hard times in higher education, Miami Dade College said Friday it was suspending its innovative midwifery program — because not enough students had paid […]

Doctors at Long Island College Hospital Dissent From Continuum Plan By E.B. SOLOMONT, Staff Reporter of the Sun http://www.nysun.com A cash-strapped Brooklyn hospital will stop delivering babies, aiming to regain its financial footing and reduce its escalating medical malpractice costs. Long Island College Hospital, in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, plans to shutter its obstetrics department […]

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Sarah Juon , Editor, NewsoftheNorth.Net It may seem like a step back in time when you look at the solo practice which Drs. Kim and Brian Erdmann, both internists, have established. There is no question they are bucking a trend of the past few decades in which physicians have abandoned solo practices en masse to […]

BY ELIZABETH BASSETT http://www.fwbusinesspress.com It’s often been said, but medicine is all about the patients. It’s about giving them what they need and what they want, and in that way, medicine isn’t much different than any company working to please its clients and customers. What is different about physicians is they are intensely trained to […]

By JENNIFER BOOTH REED http://www.news-press.com When Barbara Lentz’s hip gave out, the 72-year-old self-proclaimed Cape Coral gym rat researched implant options and came to believe a metal part best suited her needs. Her surgeon said Lee Memorial Health System administrators asked doctors to use plastic implants in older patients, Lentz said. The plastic parts were […]

By Amanda Mantone Linehan http://www.dailynewstranscript.com MALDEN — James Cheverie was nearing 30 when what he calls “an early midlife crisis” hit him. Though he’d spent nearly a decade teaching science at Malden Catholic High School, he decided his true calling – an unreachable dream he’d long held – was to practice medicine. “I’d always hoped […]