By JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU http://toledoblade.com Using northwest Ohio as its laboratory, state lawmakers have proposed a huge task force to figure out what Ohio can do to keep medical school graduates from fleeing the state for greener residency programs and homes elsewhere. “If you look at the workforce of the state, particularly northwest […]

Christopher Rizo – AHN Staff Writer http://www.allheadlinenews.com The Oregon state Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday to improve a program to keep the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance from driving doctors from small towns. With a 29-1 vote, lawmakers agreed that a 2003 law intended to lure more doctors to rural parts of Oregon needed to […]

The Associated Press http://www.joplinglobe.com An Oklahoma surgeon said Thursday he will not treat legislators who voted against a bill to curb malpractice insurance rates and suggested they go to Texas for surgical procedures. Unless it is an emergency, Dr. Peter S. Hedberg said he will “never again accept anyone as a patient who has voted […]

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 […]

http://ksjtracker.mit.edu In a five-reporter blitz over the last two days the NY Times has shown what earnest shoe work and paper-trail-pursuit can do to find out how big-money industries can prime their markets. The target here is big pharma. The topic is the many ways by which drug makers get extra money to the docs […]

JILL ARMENTROUT THE SAGINAW NEWS http://www.mlive.com Dr. Robert L. Vitu of Saginaw Township is officially retired but sometimes, it’s hard to tell. Vitu earned a 2007 Michigan State Medical Society Community Service Award in recognition of his volunteer work at a free health clinic in Saginaw. A family physician who spent 50 years serving patients, […]

http://www.forbes.com Since euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide were legalized by the Dutch in 2002, use of the practices has dropped slightly and now has stabilized, a new report finds. That marks an abrupt turnaround from trends during the last 10 years, say the authors of a study in the May 10 New England Journal of Medicine. […]

http://www.prweb.com/ Canada’s healthcare market is highly fragmented and growing as fewer physicians are entering the in-demand specialties including family and rural practice. Studies by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) project the shortage to increase to between 2,400 and 3,400 physicians by 2010 depending on the degree of government action. These figures point towards an Ontario […]

http://digital50.com/news Pediatric Services of America, Inc. d/b/a PSA HealthCare (NASDAQ:PSAI) announced today financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2007, ended March 31, 2007. Highlights of PSA’s results for the second quarter ended March 31, 2007, include: