By Cliff Peale http://news.cincinnati.com

http://www.latimes.com What is medical travel? It’s going outside your local area for medical care. For many Americans, that means seeing a specialist in another city. But increasingly, it means traveling to another country for treatment.

By Doug Trapp http://www.ama-assn.org Washington — Pennsylvania lawmakers ended a two-year session in October without agreeing on a bill to cover more of Pennsylvania’s 767,000 uninsured adults or to help physicians with medical liability premiums. Gov. Ed Rendell and Senate Republicans negotiated until the session’s end in early October but could not reach a compromise […]

By Pamela Lewis Dolan http://www.ama-assn.org As three mid-size physician practices in Tampa, Fla. — LoCicero Internal Medicine, South Tampa Medical Group and Pinnacle Health Group — finalized plans to merge into one large practice, it occurred to the parties involved that there was still one major decision that had to be made: Which of the […]

By Brian Hedger http://www.ama-assn.org/ The number of first-year students enrolled at U.S. allopathic medical schools reached a new record of 18,036. That is up 1.6% from last year’s tally of 17,759 and continues a trend, started in 1999, of increasing enrollment for first-year students, according to data released in October by the Assn. of American […]

By Karen Caffarini http://www.ama-assn.org/ Medical societies are emphasizing how physicians’ practices help local and state economies as they seek recruiting help and financial incentives. Around the country, physicians are letting their communities know that their practices don’t only keep bodies healthy, they also keep economies healthy.

Dr. Clif Cleaveland, Commentary http://timesfreepress.com I believe that access to affordable medical care of high quality is a basic right of all American citizens. Without decent health care, there is little chance for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.â€? For many Americans, this right cannot be realized in our fragmented, increasingly expensive system. Market […]

By Rob Christensen http://www.charlotteobserver.com RALEIGH Robert Pittenger had just arrived in the state Senate in 2003 when he helped turn the Legislative Building into a scene out of a big-city hospital, with 3,000 doctors flooding the halls. The doctors were lobbying for tort reform, to limit the ability of patients to sue their physicians in […]

http://www.prweb.com Chicago (PRWEB) October 22, 2008 — Rates for physicians’ liability insurance decreased for the large majority of physicians from their 2007 levels, according to Medical LiabilityMonitor’s annual nationwide Rate Survey released this week. This year’s study found 49.9 percent of rates did not change between 2007 and 2008; in fact, 20.8 percent of rates […]