by Joy Mapaye http://www.ktuu.com Gov. Sarah Palin has authorized more students to receive their medical education in Alaska. The governor signed House Bill 18 on Wednesday. The bill doubled the number of entering students into the WWAMI Program from 10 to 20 students. Alaska is one of five states participating in the WWAMI Regional Medical […]

It’s no longer enough to just have a Web site. Here are some ways your practice can maximize your online presence. By John McCormack, AMNews correspondent. Michael Rothschild, MD, is so enamored with computers and graphics that in addition to his New York-based medical practice, he runs a Web site design service. Yet, the pediatric […]

Rob Stein, Washington Post http://www.sfgate.com The nation’s largest medical specialty group is challenging a widely accepted recommendation that women should routinely undergo mammograms in their 40s, saying the risks of the breast exams may outweigh the benefit for many women. Reopening a long-running debate, the American College of Physicians, which represents 120,000 internists, plans to […]

Dr. Tom Gross http://www.marinij.com/ WE HAVE all read recently how it is becoming more difficult to obtain medical care. The care is out there, but our access to it is evolving. The science of medicine is doing well, but the business of medical care is imploding. In Santa Rosa, the old Community Hospital, now a […]

By Jose F. Arrascue http://www.sun-sentinel.com South Florida Sun-Sentinel readers of this newspaper may remember seeing stories about some emergency patients being transferred from Palm Beach County to Broward County due to a lack of capacity to treat them in Palm Beach, where they should be treated. Understandably, Broward’s doctors aren’t happy about the practice, and […]

By Phil Galewitz Palm Beach Post Staff Writer http://www.palmbeachpost.com Donna Casasnovas understood the consequences of a shortage of emergency room specialists months before the Palm Beach County Medical Society released the results of its study earlier this week. She might not have known that the 14 area hospitals have struggled for years to find enough […]

By Ronald David Weiss http://www.baltimoresun.com/ As America’s health care crisis deepens, the chorus demanding a universal solution grows louder. Health care is shaping up as one of the top issues in the 2008 presidential race. Like it or not, universal health care may be the only realistic path to pursue. The major challenge is paying […]

Associated Press http://www.napavalleyregister.com Doctors asked Nevada lawmakers Friday to pass a law that would let them say they’re sorry for medical mistakes — something they’re usually told not to do because of fears an apology could be used against them later in court. Several doctors and the head of the Nevada State Medical Association asked […]

By Phil Galewitz Palm Beach Post Staff Writer http://www.palmbeachpost.com The wait to see a doctor in Palm Beach County may be long now, but it’s likely to get much worse. If the existing supply holds steady, the county will have far fewer general surgeons and family doctors than it needs by 2011, according to a […]