By Susan Pierce http://timesfreepress.com

Comments of MSSNY President Michael Rosenberg, MD http://readme.readmedia.com ALBANY, NY (06/27/2008; 1238)(readMedia)– Michael Rosenberg, MD, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY), issued the following statement in response to the NYS legislature’s failure to address needed medical liability reform before adjourning. In doing so, he urged legislators to return to […]

Joyce Tsai http://www.bizjournals.com Some speciality nurses are being recruited at salaries that are $13,000 more than family-practice physicians — despite a nationwide shortage of family doctors, according to a new report by Irving-based Merritt Hawkins & Associates. The study found that the average salary offered to family physicians is $172,000, compared to the average salaries […]

Statement attributable to Steven D. Knight, MD – President, Illinois Academy of Family Physicians http://www.businesswire.com

Home SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jun 27, 2008 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) — SKP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — In a day of mixed blessings for the Doctors Co., California regulators approved the medical-malpractice insurer’s merger with SCPIE Holdings Inc., despite the announcement of a federal criminal investigation of the company. The […]

By ABBY ELLIN http://www.nytimes.com

HealthDay News http://www.washingtonpost.com WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — About 234 million major surgeries are performed worldwide each year, and surgery rates are much higher in high-income countries than in low-income countries, U.S. researchers report. Dr. Thomas Weiser, of the Harvard School of Public Health, and his colleagues defined major surgeries as any incision, excision, […]

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By CHERIE BLACK http://seattlepi.nwsource.com