Rob Stein, Washington Post http://www.sfgate.com The nation’s largest medical specialty group is challenging a widely accepted recommendation that women should routinely undergo mammograms in their 40s, saying the risks of the breast exams may outweigh the benefit for many women. Reopening a long-running debate, the American College of Physicians, which represents 120,000 internists, plans to […]

Dr. Tom Gross http://www.marinij.com/ WE HAVE all read recently how it is becoming more difficult to obtain medical care. The care is out there, but our access to it is evolving. The science of medicine is doing well, but the business of medical care is imploding. In Santa Rosa, the old Community Hospital, now a […]

By Jose F. Arrascue http://www.sun-sentinel.com South Florida Sun-Sentinel readers of this newspaper may remember seeing stories about some emergency patients being transferred from Palm Beach County to Broward County due to a lack of capacity to treat them in Palm Beach, where they should be treated. Understandably, Broward’s doctors aren’t happy about the practice, and […]

BY KAREN KARASZKIEWICZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER http://www.carrollcountytimes.com When Dr. John E. Steers began practicing medicine in 1971, his malpractice insurance premium cost him $1,471 a year. By the time he retired in 2005, the Westminster general surgeon was paying close to $75,000 for insurance to protect himself against potential lawsuits. Other overhead costs, such as […]

By Administrator http://www.desahogate.es The 109th Congress took as one of its favorite causes the issue of tort reform, passing legislation that severely limited an injured party’s right to sue and collect damages, and there is an ongoing debate on further restrictions on the ability of people to sue. One thing that is brought up repeatedly […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com National Specialty Underwriters, Inc. (NSU) has announced the hiring of Dianne O’Donnell as sales executive, and Meghan Hamilton as account manager for NSU Healthcare, a division of the company that specializes in the wholesale of medical professional liability to retail brokers nationwide. Advertisement O’Donnell spent the past 14 years focused on medical malpractice insurance–initially […]

By Phil Galewitz Palm Beach Post Staff Writer http://www.palmbeachpost.com Donna Casasnovas understood the consequences of a shortage of emergency room specialists months before the Palm Beach County Medical Society released the results of its study earlier this week. She might not have known that the 14 area hospitals have struggled for years to find enough […]

By Ronald David Weiss http://www.baltimoresun.com/ As America’s health care crisis deepens, the chorus demanding a universal solution grows louder. Health care is shaping up as one of the top issues in the 2008 presidential race. Like it or not, universal health care may be the only realistic path to pursue. The major challenge is paying […]

Associated Press http://www.napavalleyregister.com Doctors asked Nevada lawmakers Friday to pass a law that would let them say they’re sorry for medical mistakes — something they’re usually told not to do because of fears an apology could be used against them later in court. Several doctors and the head of the Nevada State Medical Association asked […]