By LARRY HANNAN http://www.jacksonville.com Doctors look out for their patients while Jay Millson looks out for the doctors. Millson, the executive vice president of the Duval County Medical Society, advocates for the interests of doctors in Duval County. The medical society, which is part of the Florida Medical Association, also creates a local directory of […]

By Frank Donnelly http://www.nola.com NEW YORK — Ten years from now, many babies could be delivered by doctors who are total strangers to their mothers. Medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians and gynecologists could become so expensive that only hospitals — and the doctors under their insurance umbrellas — could afford coverage for birthings. For expectant […]

The Business Review (Albany) http://www.bizjournals.com A state panel has identified 21 ways in which New York’s Graduate Medical Education system can be improved. The New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME), a group of physicians, medical administrators and other heath care leaders, issued its report to Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines on March […]

BY DANIEL AXELROD http://www.thetimes-tribune.com Local state representatives are at the heart of a debate pitting an extension of a state-funded medical malpractice insurance abatement against a plan to expand coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured adults. The bill is similar to but not as ambitious as Gov. Ed Rendell’s Cover All Pennsylvanians proposal. Now, […]

By Michelle Lang, Calgary Herald http://www.canada.com At a time when nearly a quarter of all Calgarians don’t have a regular family physician, a new medical clinic in the city is struggling with the opposite problem: a shortage of patients. The Calgary Foothills Primary Care Centre has signed up only 200 people since opening its doors […]

By Kenneth J. St. Onge http://www.insurancejournal.com Consumer and health advocacy groups in New York are criticizing a yet-to-be-made public plan to create a medical malpractice indemnity pool which would cover medical expenses for injured patients. Although no plan to create the pool has been announced, the coalition of groups – which includes the New York […]

By Rachel Davis Home Physician George Matthews, former owner of the Women’s Clinic L.L.P., said it’s time to stop running a business and focus on what he loves to do — practice obstetrics and gynecology. Matthews, along with clinic physician and partner Ben Williams, approached Scott Taylor, president and CEO of St. Catherine Hospital, a […]

http://www.prnewswire.com PHILADELPHIA, March 26 /PRNewswire/ — The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply, an independent group of healthcare leaders based at the University of Pennsylvania, has called on the White House to convene a special conference to address the national shortage of physicians and nurses. “Access to healthcare services cannot be maintained, let alone expanded, […]

By Lois M. Collins http://deseretnews.com They figured they had better offer a few carrots when they first decided to start a book club for physicians in 1989. So the founders in the Division of Medical Ethics, jointly sponsored by the University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital, told would-be participants, “You can bring […]