By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A new attempt to address the political and legal debate over medical malpractice litigation in Madison County comes from what is perhaps an unlikely source. The battle over the issue that made the news almost daily in 2005 largely pitted lawyers, who say the court system is a fair […]

By Lee Romney, LA Times Staff Writer http://ktla.trb.com The young man told the emergency room doctor at Sutter Coast Hospital that he had come to await the end of the world under the big trees. He realized he needed help. But there are no psychiatric beds here, and not a single psychiatrist practices in Del […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine offers a unique and detailed view of race and discrimination in the health care workplace and the negative impact on job satisfaction, career advancement and minority physician retention. Published in the January 2 Annals of Internal Medicine, the study explored the role of race […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com Nearly one-third of Wyoming doctors are planning to leave the state eventually and many of those say the cost of malpractice insurance is a factor, a new state report shows. The Wyoming Healthcare Commission this week released a report giving detailed information about doctors and other health care professionals in the state. The report […]

Mark Moran http://pn.psychiatryonline.org Because of congressional action, payment for psychiatrists will drop on average by just 2 percent instead of 7 percent. Other specialties will still be experiencing greater cuts in payment even after the action by Congress. An 11th-hour intervention by Congress averted a scheduled 5 percent across-the-board reduction in reimbursement for physicians and […]

by Bend Weekly News Sources http://www.bendweekly.com/ Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine, located on Bend’s Westside, is a medical practice that puts many common complaints of doctors’ appointments to rest and improves the patient-doctor relationship. Many of the common reasons patients dislike visiting a doctor’s office are related to how they must spend their time waiting. At […]

http://medinnovationblog.blogspot.com by Richard L. Reece, MD A doctor reader recently responded to one of my blogs, where I spoke of medicine as a market-driven enterprise that must respond to consumers. I used the success of retail-clinics as one example. The reader commented, “Health care is not a traditional market because the consumer feedbacks can take […]

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE http://stanleyfeldmdmace.typepad.com/ Physicians have been slow to adopt Electronic Medical Records (EMR) even though most physicians are computer savvy. There are reasons for physicians to be slow adoptors. They are told that the EMR will increase their quality of care. However, quality of care has not been adequately defined by those who proclaim […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com Oklahoma State Representative Jason W. Murphey (R-Guthrie) has introduced legislation intended to lower medical costs by providing incentive for insurers to write “Negative Outcomes” insurance policies. The bill also seeks to help ensure that patients are properly and quickly compensated for medical malpractice. In the announcement, Murphey said Negative Outcomes insurance is a unique […]