Decatur physician specializes in getting travelers ready to face health hazards of international trips By Paul Huggins http://www.decaturdaily.com The hymn “He’s Got the Whole World in His Handsâ€? may come to mind to local churches planning short-term mission trips to remote parts of Africa or South America this summer. But before they board their plane, […]

http://www.surgicenteronline.com/ When it comes to disclosing medical errors to patients, there is a gap between physicians’ attitudes and their real-world experiences admitting such errors, according to a University of Iowa study. From a survey of faculty physicians, resident physicians and medical students, researchers found that while nearly all respondents indicated that they would disclose a […]

By: Marketwire . The Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium, a collaborative effort started by Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO), Intel Corporation and Oracle along with several large California physician organizations (POs) to accelerate the use of technology for quality health care, today announced its first year end results. These results demonstrate impressive strides in the adoption and use […]

By M.J. Ellington http://www.decaturdaily.com Active doctors have malpractice insurance but not much time to volunteer. Retired doctors have the time but not the insurance. But a bill in the Legislature would help doctors who volunteer for free clinics get malpractice insurance, encouraging retired physicians to donate their time. “If it comes to volunteering or losing […]

By MARY JO LAYTON STAFF WRITER http://www.northjersey.com If you want to see Ridgewood gynecologist Ruth J. Schulze, you’ll have to sign a contract promising never to sue her for malpractice. The veteran physician and a dozen other gynecologists in New Jersey require the contracts as a condition of treatment. Schulze sees it as the only […]

By JESSICA LONG San Diego Business Journal Staff Home Treating patients who speak little-to-no English costs individual physician practices on average $19,000 a year, according to a report released here last week. Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, a national organization representing 120,000 internal medicine physicians, related subspecialists and medical students released that finding last week […]

As many as 15 per cent of all diagnoses are inaccurate, says Jerome Groopman. James MacGowan Ottawa Citizen In a new book, the doctor explains why and what you can do about it In Dr. Jerome Groopman’s fascinating but alarming new book How Doctors Think, the New Yorker writer and Harvard Medical School professor tells […]

Healthy plants, internet access and good reading material will make patients’ complaints melt away By Abe Konigsberg http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com For most practices in Canada, overstuffed waiting rooms are an unavoidable, often unpleasant fact of life. But a three-physician group in Montreal decided to make lemonade out of life’s lemons and turn their waiting room into a […]

This tiny, bare bones ‘micropractice’ is FP Gordon Moore’s idea of paradise. No secretary, no nurse — and no hassles By Peter Woodford http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com “In many ways this is a Norman Rockwell practice with a 21st century technological backbone,” muses solo FP Dr Gordon Moore of his Ideal Micropractice vision, speaking to NRM from his […]