With doctors retiring, local hospitals take steps to prevent gaps in care By Cheryl Powell Beacon Journal medical writer Notice a few more gray hairs these days when you visit your doctor? Not on you — on the doctor. Be warned: Those silvery strands could be a sign of a physician shortage on the horizon. […]

By MARY JO LAYTON STAFF WRITER http://www.northjersey.com Felt rushed at your last doctor’s visit? New Jersey physicians spend less time with patients than they did five years ago, according to a Monmouth University/New Jersey Monthly Poll’s Physicians Survey released Tuesday. In fact, a third of the doctors surveyed are so frustrated with practicing medicine in […]

BY DR. HERBERT KEATING | SPECIAL TO THE COURANT http://www.courant.com Being “on call” nights and weekends is part of every physician’s life. Mandatory during the training stages of residency and fellowship, call responsibilities continue for the full-fledged doctor, some disciplines requiring more (e.g. cardiology) than others (e.g. pathology). Predictable emotions are part of the “on […]

# Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and Cornell rank lowest By Eric Eyre Staff writer http://sundaygazettemail.com No medical school in the nation is graduating more future family doctors than Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. About 22 percent of Marshall’s medical school graduates entered family practice residencies last year. That tied Florida State University […]

By Star Lawrence, Contributing Writer Health Behavior News Service http://www.hbns.org Educational outreach visits — to scrutinize firsthand how doctors perform procedures, prescribe drugs, assess patients for health risks and give advice — could improve the way that some physicians practice medicine. In a systematic review comparing 69 studies using trained individuals to go out to […]

http://www.mywesttexas.com With a view to offering a specialty clinic like larger cities feature, seven Midland doctors have joined to form West Texas Orthopedics. Physicians include Jerry L. Cochran, John C. Dean, Donald W. Floyd, David J. Power, Michael L. Ramsey, Lawrence W. Voesack and Kevin P. Huffman, and a certified physicians assistant make up the […]

By Joe Fahy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When she heard that her family physician, Dr. Joel Warshaw, was scaling back the size of his medical practice to provide better service, Mary Cindrich was immediately interested. Beginning Jan. 1, he is starting the area’s first “concierge” internal medical practice for adults and older children. A local pediatrician, Dr. […]

http://www.earthtimes.org OUT: managed care; frivolous liability lawsuits; paperwork and administrative hassles. IN: fair reimbursement, liability reform, respect and quality of life for surgeons. As the American College of Surgeons meets in New Orleans this week, a recent physician survey indicates these issues are on the minds of today’s general surgeons. Among approximately 240 general surgeons […]

Baltimore Business Journal – by Sue Schultz Staff http://www.bizjournals.com/ Doctors practicing in Maryland are calling for a reduction in their medical malpractice premiums following a decision by the state’s largest medical liability insurer to give back $32.5 million in state funds that would have gone toward lowering physician’s malpractice rates. Dr. Carol Ritter, a Towson […]