Patients Caught In Aetna-AMA Out-Of-Network Fight By DIANE LEVICK Courant Staff Writer Aetna and the American Medical Association are fighting about payments to doctors again, and patients across the nation are getting caught in between. The dispute centers on how much Aetna pays out-of-network doctors in some instances and the right of those doctors to […]

By Elizabeth Cohen CNN http://www.cnn.com/ ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — When Christine had a hysterectomy in September, her doctor told her it would take about a week to recover from the laparoscopic procedure. Medical complications are not always the result of negligence. Nearly every procedure involves some risk. Four months — and three additional surgeries later […]

By: Lewis S. Sharps, M.D., For The Bulletin http://www.thebulletin.us My dual experience as an orthopedic spine surgeon and president of Pennsylvania’s only physician-driven medical malpractice insurance company has provided me with a unique insight into this state’s medical malpractice environment. Many states are threatened by an escalating medical liability crisis. They can learn a great […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com The Federation of State Medical Boards Research and Education Foundation (FSMB) is offering every physician a new handbook to help them better manage patients’ acute or chronic pain. Responsible Opioid Prescribing: A Physician’s Guide offers real-world explanations and practical strategies that address issues of undertreatment of pain, risk of prescription drug abuse and improved […]

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report http://www.kaisernetwork.org Maryland has 16% fewer physicians in clinical practice than the national per capita average, a shortage that could become severe by 2015, according to a report released on Monday by MedChi, the state’s medical society, and the Maryland Hospital Society, the Washington Post reports. For the report, presented last […]

Practices ‘full to the gills’ as 200,000 B.C. residents without GP Ian Austin and Stuart Hunter, The Province http://www.canada.com Up to 200,000 British Columbians don’t have regular access to a family doctor, the president of the B.C. Medical Association said yesterday. Dr. Geoff Appleton, a family physician in Terrace, said doctor shortages have become a […]

CBC Faced with an aging population requiring increasingly complex care, overwhelmed Canadian doctors are feeling more and more frustrated by their inability to properly serve their patients’ health needs, a national physicians survey reports. In the survey of more than 20,000 doctors and doctors-in-training from across the country, 75 per cent reported that inadequate funding […]

MATTHEW MOLLOY The Coaster http://www.thecoaster.ca Central Health recruitment officers are currently engaged in talks with a couple of physicians about coming to work at the Connaigre Peninsula Health Care Centre in Harbour Breton. Although nothing has been written in stone, the vice-president of Rural Health with Central Health said they are closer now to bringing […]

By MICHAEL GORMLEY | Associated Press Writer http://www.newsday.com Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants the state to pay off the student loans of physicians who agree to serve rural and urban areas without enough doctors, an administration official said Tuesday. Spitzer is also considering a $1 billion Upstate Revitalization Fund and other measures to renew downtowns and […]