By ERIC LINDBERG Homepage Dr. Ralph Quijano always knew he wanted to be a doctor. With a physician as a father, he nurtured an immediate interest in the profession, even at 5 years old. It seemed a foregone conclusion he would end up in medical school and private practice.

http://www.ama-assn.org The Association’s agenda for the coming year focuses on health care’s regulatory environment, clinical excellence, public health, physician practice viability, professionalism and education, and a sustainable AMA. The House of Delegates Interim Meeting is held in November, a natural time to announce plans for the year ahead. In that regard, the AMA’s annual Strategic […]

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http://www.marketwatch.com PASADENA, Calif., Nov 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kaiser Permanente received the most stars in the just released HMO Quality Report from the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA). Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region and Northern California Region each received seven of eight possible stars in the report — more than any other […]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ U.S. doctors seem to be fed up. Within the next three years, a new survey shows, almost half are considering cutting back on patients or simply halting their practice. Already, more than three-quarters say, there’s a shortage of primary care doctors. The responses from 12,000 U.S. physicians indicate they’re spending more time on paperwork, […]

By Molly Henneberg http://www.foxnews.com WASHINGTON —  In 2011, the first of the 78 million baby boomers will turn 65. But only one out of every 100 doctors is a certified geriatrician specializing in treating the elderly. And that is a growing concern for those in medicine. “The actual number of certified geriatricians is currently going down […]

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By Kay Lazar As a phalanx of sign-carrying mothers rallied outside, their babies bundled against the earlymorning cold, Beverly Hospital trustees yesterday backed down from a plan to cease deliveries at the hospital’s natural birthing center, one of only two such facilities in the state. In a four-sentence statement from Northeast Health System, which owns […]

By Claire Cain Miller http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com American Well aims to reinvent the house call. If Roy Schoenberg, the start-up’s co-founder and chief executive, has his way, patients will no longer have to wait a month to see a doctor for an urgent sore throat, wait all day for a doctor to return their call or leave […]