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The Wall Street Journal Front As the shortage of primary-care physicians mounts, the nursing profession is offering a possible solution: the “doctor nurse.” More than 200 nursing schools have established or plan to launch doctorate of nursing practice programs to equip graduates with skills the schools say are equivalent to primary-care physicians. The two-year programs, […]

Edward Langston, M.D. http://bangornews.com/ On July 1, the government health insurance program for seniors and the disabled will automatically begin draconian payment cuts to physicians. During a year and a half, the cuts translate to a loss of $50 million to Maine physician practices caring for Medicare patients. But the real losers are Medicare patients […]

Surendra Ullal http://indiapost.com/ CHICAGO: The Indian American Medical Association (IL) Charitable Foundation that operates a free medical clinic in Chicago, plans to create an endowment of $ one million in coming years to make the clinic self sufficient.Announcing this at the semi annual meeting and fundraising dinner event of the Foundation held at India House […]

Val Jones, MD http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ American physicians are appropriately frustrated about the high cost of medical malpractice insurance, and the frequency with which false and/or exaggerated claims are filed against them. In the Philadelphia region, a spine surgeon must pay upwards of $300,000.00 a year in malpractice insurance. The law allows Obstetricians to be sued for […]

http://www.tylerpaper.com/ Even as the nightly news seems to be steeped in story after story about the country’s failing heath care system, former state Rep. Joseph Nixon, writing for the Texas Public Policy Center, points to a success in Texas that other states can emulate. The 1960s and ’70s saw changes in tort law – remedies […]

Physicians Total Care http://www.pr.com Tulsa, OK, May 27, 2008 –(PR.com)– Due to decreased reimbursements from managed care companies, Hickory Family Practice in Hickory, N.C., began looking for different avenues to increase profitability. Integrating physician medication dispensing through Physicians Total Care allowed Hickory Family Practice to generate additional revenue for the practice. The five-physician practice installed […]

By JASON ROBERSON http://www.dallasnews.com/ In 2003, President Bush said he wanted most Americans’ medical records to be computerized within 10 years. The savings from moving away from paper could rise into the hundreds of millions a year, the president said. And electronic records can reduce medical errors, proponents said. Five years later, only a third […]