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 […]

KAREN BUCKELEW Daily Record Business Writer Maryland’s doctors and hospitals are calling for change in the state’s health insurance and medical malpractice systems, pointing to a new study showing a growing shortage of physicians. The state has 16 percent fewer practicing doctors than the national average, according to the study released Monday from the Maryland […]

by Charlotte Ferrell Smith Daily Mail staff http://www.dailymail.com A West Virginian is taking over as president of the American Medical Association, marking the first time a Mountain State native will head up the prestigious organization. Elkins native is president-elect of the American Medical Association Elkins native Nancy J. Nielsen is president-elect of the American Medical […]

Doctors support increasing access to health insurance but don’t want it funded from a state medical liability pool. By Amy Lynn Sorrel, AMNews staff http://www.ama-assn.org Pennsylvania physicians are fighting to stave off Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s plan to divert funds from the state’s medical liability assistance program to cover the uninsured.

National Post http://www.nationalpost.com We do not presume to know whether medical degrees should take four years to earn; or only three, as an editorial in the latest edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) suggests might be the case. But we know this: The length of time must be determined by medical necessity not […]