By Eric Eyre http://sundaygazettemail.com Don’t tell neurosurgeon Dr. John Schmidt that the recent $25 million jury award against Charleston Area Medical Center won’t harm patient care. Schmidt says he sees equipment every day that needs to be fixed at the hospital. “Go to any floor, and you’ll see something broken,” Schmidt told CAMC trustees Wednesday. […]

By Mari-Ela David http://www.khnl.com KAILUA (KHNL) — Imagine needing emergency medical care but not being able to get it. It’s a situation that’s already happening and could actually become common place if Hawaii’s health care industry doesn’t make some serious changes. Many are out fighting to get something done about it. At Castle Medical Center […]

By Ann Lukits http://www.thewhig.com It took a team of government researchers just five days to discover what Kingstonians have been saying for years: The city doesn’t have nearly enough family doctors. A door-to-door survey of Kingston households by Statistics Canada found that 14.8 per cent of adult men and women – or 13,360 permanent city […]

by Jason Hidalgo http://news.rgj.com The decision by U.S. medical schools to cap enrollment in the ’80s and ’90s is being cited by medical experts as a major factor in the ongoing shortage of surgeons and primary care physicians nationwide. Medical schools implemented the caps because they expected managed care to create a glut of doctors. […]

by Tom Blackwell, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com Teresa Evans knew that finding a new family doctor would be difficult, but she never expected to have to try out for the privilege. The first doctor the 33-year-old approached made her fill out a detailed questionnaire on her medical condition, then rejected her application without any explanation. She […]

H. Darr Beiser http://www.usatoday.com NASSAWADOX, Va. — In the modest building that houses Shore Memorial Hospital in this town of about 600 people between the Chesapeake and Hog Island bays, a health care crisis is brewing. It’s a problem rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, when U.S. medical schools put a cap on enrollments, believing […]

Management in Practice Homepage Practice managers and assistants are being invited to join a proposed new representative professional body. The vision for this professional body was established at a meeting of practice managers and other interested parties in January 2008. Organisers say it will be an independent body unaffiliated to any other existing organisation. Practice […]

By Eloise Aguiar http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com KAILUA — The number of doctors working in Windward O’ahu is on the decline, worrying people that a shortage of physicians that was once primarily a Neighbor Islands problem is festering here. In the past two years alone, eight doctors — including a family doctor, an internist, a spine surgeon, a […]

BY JILL DOSS-RAINES http://www.the-dispatch.com Several Lexington doctors’ offices will soon be part of the Novant Medical Group but will continue to treat their Davidson County patients locally, using Lexington Memorial Hospital for inpatient and outpatient services and testing, the doctors said this week. Novant Medical Group is a network of more than 1,000 doctors and […]