By Halimah Abdullah http://www.macon.com/ Macon physician Harvey Jones makes less than $60,000 a year, drives a 14-year-old Cadillac and says continued cuts to Medicare reimbursements to physicians mean he is unable to afford medical insurance for himself or his employees. “All I do is pray. I try to take care of myself. I buy my […]

by The Times-Picayune http://www.nola.com/  The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company, a medical malpractice insurer, will pay a $10.5 million dividend to qualifying policyholders during the second quarter of 2008, LAMMICO President/CEO Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D. announced. This is the first time in LAMMICO’s 26-year history that the company will return a dividend to its policyholders. […]

By John Gardner http://www.postindependent.com/ GARFIELD COUNTY — The nursing shortage around the nation is a very real thing, according to Daniel Biggs, administrative director of human resources at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs. But the hospitals in Garfield County are better off than many. “I believe that the nursing shortage is a matter of […]

BY DARRELL COLE http://www.amherstdaily.com/ PUGWASH – For the sixth time in a month the emergency department at the North Cumberland Memorial Hospital is being forced to close because of a physician shortage, but officials with the Cumberland Health Authority are hoping those closures will end soon. “It’s something we continue to work on,â€? health authority […]

By Rianne Pangelinan-Brown http://www.saipantribune.com Medical malpractice insurance from reputable U.S.-based insurance companies is not readily available to the CNMI because the islands’ risk pool is too small, according to the Commonwealth Health Center’s litigation counsel, David Lochabay. “There aren’t enough doctors [on the islands] to spread the risk of malpractice claims for an insurance company […]

By Patty Pensa http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ It’s been nine years since Rita Wax’s son died on the operating room table, yet the lawsuit alleging malpractice continues. Wax hasn’t lost any resolve. She’s as convinced as she was on Day 1: Gary Wax shouldn’t have died. At age 37, he was healthy and the procedure, a hernia repair, […]

Civility Mutual http://www.earthtimes.org SANTA FE, N.M., April 15 /PRNewswire/ — Civility Mutual, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, launches today as the first and only membership organization to offer education, training and CMEs for physician – patient communication effectiveness, and provides residency directors with the educational tools and assessments their residents need to fulfill the […]

http://www.northcountrygazette.org ALBANY—The New York State Senate has passed legislation (S.7038), sponsored by Sen. John Flanagan (R-C-I, East Northport) that would lower the required level of primary medical malpractice coverage that a physician or dentist must have in order to qualify for the New York Excess Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Coverage Program. The measure has been […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, and Herb Kohl (D-WI), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, reacted to an editorial in the latest issue of JAMA, made public today. In the article, the editors maintain that financial ties between physician and pharmaceutical companies should be disclosed both […]