By Keith Darcé UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER http://www.signonsandiego.com/ A seemingly simple change at Dr. Ada Marin’s office has placed the San Diego family physician at the forefront of the health care industry’s technology revolution. Special notes in electronic records for her patients with diabetes remind office workers to ask the patients to remove their shoes and […]

By Brad Bumsted STATE CAPITOL REPORTER http://www.pittsburghlive.com Melanie Richman drives more than two hours each day on a round-trip to Youngstown, Ohio, to work as an emergency room physician. The cost of malpractice insurance in Pennsylvania is a major reason Richman, of Sewickley, took the job out of state. “I’ve worked in Pennsylvania since 1992, […]

Joe Pellicer For The Olympian I recently attended a refreshingly different medical conference. Instead of t eaching about diagnosis and treatment, it taught us about the art and science of service excellence in the practice of medicine. As medicine has evolved from its cultish past into a multibillion dollar industry, too many physicians have considered […]

Brenda Lane http://pregnancychildbirth.suite101.com Birth centers around the country is being hard hit with slowing business and rising malpractice insurance. What is to become of the free-standing birth centers? One of the most disturbing trends across the country and beyond has been the closing of many free-standing birth centers. In as few as the last three […]

http://www.mysanantonio.com When Texas voters in 2003 approved a state proposition capping lawsuit awards for medical malpractice cases, only four insurance companies even offered malpractice policies to Texas doctors. Now, 30 insurance companies crowd the market, and premiums have fallen like so many San Antonio Spurs playoff opponents. The lower cost of being a doctor in […]

By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter A national society of physician assistants (PA) this week rejected a resolution that would have banned all efforts to alter sexual orientation. Instead, it passed one that would not restrict PAs from helping those with unwanted homosexual desires. PAs, health care professionals who are licensed or credentialed to practice […]

http://www.onmedica.net Sir Jonathan Michael, former chief executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, will chair the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities. The inquiry follows charity Mencap’s report Death by Indifference published in March into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, announced […]

By Laura H. Kahn Home One of the greatest challenges facing health care is figuring out how to assess the worth of thoughts. It is far easier to put a monetary value on a specific task such as a colonoscopy or cardiac catheterization than on the nebulous efforts of thinking and talking. This difference is […]

http://www.earthtimes.org Cancer Clinics of Excellence(TM) (CCE) today announced that it has launched with the goal of bringing together community-based oncologists to provide high-quality, cost-effective, best-in-class care for cancer patients. Established in April, CCE is one of the largest physician focused oncology services companies in the United States, with 224 medical oncologists at 21 practices in […]