By Alison Snyder Long Island Business News – New York Business News In our Internet-saturated society, where consumers routinely turn to Google for information on health conditions and the doctors who treat them, a Web site could have a bottom-line impact for physicians. Kaveh Alizadeh, a plastic surgeon in a Garden City-based group practice, said […]

Five million Canadians—approximately 15 per cent of the population—don’t have a family doctor. Here, College of Family Physicians of Canada president Dr. Ruth Wilson shares tips on how these people can get themselves a physician. Kate Lunau http://www.macleans.ca Canada’s in the grip of a severe doctor shortage, and most of us know it all too […]

http://www.journalpress.com In 2003 Hurricane Isabel came ripping through the Town of Colonial Beach and the town was forced to take a good look at its emergency preparedness. Among a few other things, the town discovered that it had very few medical resources within the community should adversity strike. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Richard Dunn announced that […]

http://health.cch.com/ Congress on December 19 passed legislation that will stop a 10 percent decrease in payments to physicians that was to go into effect Jan. 1, 2008, and also extends the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) until March 31, 2009. The Bush administration praised the legislation for extending the SCHIP program without raising taxes. […]

By Fili Sagapolutele in Pago Pago The American Samoa government is drafting legislation that would have LBJ Medical Center pay any malpractice suits against the hospital and the government. The legislation would also appoint a hospital committee to review the work performance of each physician and if they were involved in a malpractice lawsuit, take […]

Heading into retirement, longtime local physician fears he may have been part of a vanishing species By Judy Benson http://www.theday.com For 30 years, Dr. Robert Linden has been taking care of his friends and neighbors from offices in a modest, gray ranch house on Main Street a few miles from his home in another part […]

By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer http://www.sptimes.com TAMPA – Dr. Jack Brock still wears blue surgical scrubs each day, even though he no longer needs them. That’s because Brock, once the respected director of cardiac surgery at Tampa General Hospital, no longer spends his days stitching arteries and removing lung tumors. Instead, he has joined […]

Fenglaly Lee is Fresno’s first female Hmong OB/GYN. By Vanessa Colón / The Fresno Bee http://www.fresnobee.com Dr. Fenglaly Lee grew up as a refugee in Fresno living on welfare and harvesting Asian vegetables on the weekends. Now, she is delivering babies as the first female Hmong OB/GYN doctor in the central San Joaquin Valley and […]

By Frank Donnelly THE ADVANCE (STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.) http://www.statesman.com Ten years from now, many babies could be delivered by doctors who are total strangers to the mothers. Medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians and gynecologists could become so expensive that only hospitals — and the doctors under their insurance umbrellas — could afford coverage for birthings. […]