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By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com What’s become an annual game of chicken between Congress and America’s doctors is playing out to its yearly denouement this week. Unless Congress acts before Tuesday’s deadline, physicians and hospitals will see a 10.6 percent reduction in their Medicare reimbursements. For many Western Pennsylvania medical practices, those cuts would […]

By Monetta M. Harr – Jackson Citizen Patriot http://blog.mlive.com Change is just about the only constant in medicine, but some patients are surprised when an unfamiliar doctor stops by their room at Foote Hospital. Increasingly, it is not their general practitioner. Instead, it is a physician known as a hospitalist. “Our biggest challenge is explaining […]

by Margie Manning http://www.bizjournals.com The acquisition this month of Pediatric Cardiology Associates, a high-profile doctors group in Tampa and St. Petersburg, is the first swell in what could be a wave of physician practice purchases across the Tampa Bay area. Pediatrix, based in Fort Lauderdale, bought the practice for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of […]

by Nadine Armstrong/Hants Journal http://www.novanewsnow.com As many physicians in Windsor and West Hants near retirement age, the municipalities have raised concerns about a future doctor shortage. At the June 26 joint council, Hantsport nurse practitioner Dawn Lowe spoke on the benefits of collaborative practice as a viable alternative to the standard family physician solo practice. […]

By BILL HENDRICK http://www.ajc.com Elba Ramos is lying on a cot, nervously inhaling laughing gas through a clear plastic nasal mask, but she’s definitely not laughing. Instead, she’s grimacing as Dr. Sam Lorenzo talks to her in a soothing voice while pricking the end of an infected finger with an anesthetic needle. Though feeling no […]

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