By MARY JO LAYTON STAFF WRITER http://www.northjersey.com Felt rushed at your last doctor’s visit? New Jersey physicians spend less time with patients than they did five years ago, according to a Monmouth University/New Jersey Monthly Poll’s Physicians Survey released Tuesday. In fact, a third of the doctors surveyed are so frustrated with practicing medicine in […]

http://www.stltoday.co With a shortage of physicians, nurse practitioners can help fill the void. Terry McQuaide, advanced nurse practitioner, Esse Health As an advanced nurse practitioner with offices in Illinois and Missouri, I have a unique perspective. My Illinois patients receive more efficient care for issues such as bronchitis and acute back pain based on that […]

By Star Lawrence, Contributing Writer Health Behavior News Service http://www.hbns.org Educational outreach visits — to scrutinize firsthand how doctors perform procedures, prescribe drugs, assess patients for health risks and give advice — could improve the way that some physicians practice medicine. In a systematic review comparing 69 studies using trained individuals to go out to […]

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://www.mywesttexas.com With a view to offering a specialty clinic like larger cities feature, seven Midland doctors have joined to form West Texas Orthopedics. Physicians include Jerry L. Cochran, John C. Dean, Donald W. Floyd, David J. Power, Michael L. Ramsey, Lawrence W. Voesack and Kevin P. Huffman, and a certified physicians assistant make up the […]

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 LIZ FREEMAN http://www.bonitanews.com Florida doctors may be getting a break with their medical malpractice insurance, an analysis by the state Office of Insurance Regulation shows. But that doesn’t necessarily mean their battle with exhorbitant premiums is over or that the state’s reputation as a hostile medical malpractice climate is in the past, according to […]

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 […]