http://www.goerie.com Politics is often defined by conflict. Many Pennsylvanians even relish a healthy political battle. But state Senate Republicans are playing with fire on health care — the kind that could cost you your favorite doctor or specialist if a stalemate over malpractice insurance isn’t resolved soon. Doctors, patients and uninsured residents of Pennsylvania were […]

http://www.marketwire.com  NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – April 7, 2008) – SynaMed, LLC, a leader in award-winning, healthcare technology, is proud to offer our free electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management system technology to physicians across the United States. The response so far has been tremendous as physicians rush to enroll in SynaMed’s “Free EMR / […]

By Mike Scott http://crainsdetroit.com/ Retail health clinics have made their way into metro Detroit and are competing with doctors’ offices for routine patient visits. Clinics contend that the quality of care is high and that when a patient requires urgent care or a visit to a physician’s office, the process is seamless, said May Hang, […]

Andrea Houston http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com The provincewide doctor shortage is one of the largest obstacles facing health care in Ontario with doctors and patients being pushed to the brink with stress, said the president of the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Janice Willett, an obstetrician from Sault Ste Marie, was at the Holiday Inn on George Street yesterday […]

By Jim Killackey http://newsok.com A new national study reports an increasing number of American doctors support national health insurance. Many Oklahoma physicians are skeptical of the idea. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading medical journal, reports that a survey last year of 2,200 physicians showed 59 percent “support government legislation to […]

By Michelle Lang http://www.canada.com/ Dr. Sandra Goranson used to joke that as a family physician in inflation-fuelled Calgary, she should take on a second job to cover her climbing office expenses. Recently, Goranson took the leap and joined the growing number of family physicians in the city who have started a cosmetic medicine business — […]

Health Plan Week http://www.aishealth.com While physicians have been slow to embrace electronic prescribing, the experiences of several health plans in the forefront of e-prescribing point to four critical ingredients that, when used, will help such an initiative succeed and produce a significant return on investment. There are quantifiable costs and safety benefits being realized by […]

By DIANE LEVICK http://www.courant.com When 65-year-old Anne-Marie Russo of Wethersfield went looking for a new internist late last month, she didn’t expect to end up so frustrated, after attempts failed with seven physicians. “This is a real nightmare,” said Russo, a retired business manager at A.I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford who’s now on […]

By Kevin Sack http://www.nytimes.com AMHERST, Mass. — Once they discover that she is Dr. Kate, the supplicants line up to approach at dinner parties and ballet recitals. Surely, they suggest to Dr. Katherine J. Atkinson, a family physician here, she might find a way to move them up her lengthy waiting list for new patients. […]