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 […]

By Harry Wessel | Sentinel Staff Writer http://www.orlandosentinel.com With his 3-year-old, A.J., in tow and month-old twins at home, Florida Hospital surgeon Dr. Alric Simmonds takes a timeout at work to sing the praises of hospital employment. “It’s not that the hours are less — you’re on call, you carry a pager, you’re accessible. But […]

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 […]

http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com The Doctors Co. followed an aggressive prescription for growth Tuesday. The Napa, Calif.-based private physician-owned medical malpractice insurer reached an agreement to acquire publicly traded SCPIE Holdings Inc., also a major healthcare liability insurance provider, for approximately $281 million in cash. Doctors is offering $28 per share in cash, which represents a 27% premium […]

http://home.businesswire.com SCPIE Holdings Inc. (NYSE:SKP), a major provider of healthcare liability insurance, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Doctors Company, a leading physician-owned medical malpractice carrier, for $28.00 per share in cash, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $281 million. The $28.00 per share in […]

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ US doctors may not have time to be out of the office with colleagues playing golf anymore, but they might be found clicking away online (on a social networking site) instead. And the demise of doctors’ weekday golf availability and their time on Sermo.com, the US social networking site for physicians, are very much […]

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. […]

By Judith Graham | Tribune staff reporter Your doctor probably knows it. Medical organizations certainly do. But most patients have no idea. The annual physical examination — that encounter when a physician looks in your throat, listens to your heart, pokes your abdomen, checks your reflexes and tests your blood — is no longer a […]

By LIZ FREEMAN http://www.bonitanews.com Florida doctors may be getting a break with their medical malpractice insurance, an analysis by the state Office of Insurance Regulation shows. But that doesn’t necessarily mean their battle with exhorbitant premiums is over or that the state’s reputation as a hostile medical malpractice climate is in the past, according to […]