By: David Burda and Andis Robeznieks http://www.modernhealthcare.com A futurist, a physician assistant and a cash-only doctor walk into a convention center. The futurist tells a large audience they are becoming increasingly robotic and speaks of gloom, doom and mosquitoes. Before smaller audiences, the physician assistant talks about making more money and standing up to insurance […]

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 […]

http://www.stltoday.co With a shortage of physicians, nurse practitioners can help fill the void. Terry McQuaide, advanced nurse practitioner, Esse Health As an advanced nurse practitioner with offices in Illinois and Missouri, I have a unique perspective. My Illinois patients receive more efficient care for issues such as bronchitis and acute back pain based on that […]

http://money.cnn.com/ Successful Results lead GM, Ford, Chrysler and Michigan Health Plans to Extend the ePrescribing Pilot Program into 2008 ePrescribing significantly reduces medication errors, according to data released today from the Southeast Michigan ePrescribing Initiative (SEMI), a broad coalition involving General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler LLC, the United Auto Workers (UAW), Blue Cross Blue […]

By Mark Crane, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Half of physicians from ages 50 to 65 are frustrated with their practices and plan to sharply cut back or abandon patient care within the next three years, according to a survey. Fifty-two percent of these older physicians said they find medicine has become less satisfying over the […]

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 […]

By JULIUS A. KARASH The Kansas City Star Health providers should review their financial relationships to avoid violating Medicare rules and a possible tightening of those rules, two Kansas City health-care lawyers said Wednesday. “The government realizes everyone is chasing the same thing — money,â€? said Randal Schultz, head of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy’s national […]

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com I am starting to see some of these efforts as well in my daily travels and conversations…my personal opinion here is too that much of the dignity associated with health care is being eroded with new constraints and overhead arriving almost daily at the practice door…when you compare how a practice operates today compared […]

# 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 […]