Globe Editorial DR. JOSEPH PEPPE is happy to get help in repaying his medical school loans. He and 46 other primary care doctors received this benefit in exchange for agreeing to work at a Massachusetts health center for two to three years. “I very much enjoy the work I do,” he said a few days […]

Kansas City Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com To pad its lead in the maternity market, Shawnee Mission Medical Center said Monday that it has launched the area’s first obstetrics hospitalist program. Hospitalists are physicians who treat only hospital patients and work either for hospitals or practices that contract to see patients for other doctors. The four obstetrics […]

David Gulliver http://www.heraldtribune.com A pulmonologist snaked a tube through the nose and into a man’s lungs. A nurse inserted a needle into a man’s arm and started an intravenous drip of a medicine. A otolaryngologist made a small incision in the fold behind the ear of a man with persistent hearing problems, the first step in a […]

Associated Press, The News & Observer http://www.insurancejournal.com The North Carolina Medical Board will hold a public hearing next month on a proposal to post doctors’ malpractice information on its Web site. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported this week that the idea has already drawn the opposition of the state’s private physicians association. The […]

Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. http://www.earthtimes.org LOS ANGELES, May 30 /PRNewswire/ — The Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) today announced that the exceptional financial strength of its core product, Mutual Protection Trust (MPT), has again earned an A+ rating from A.M. Best Company, a worldwide rating and information agency. This marks the third consecutive […]

Associated Press http://story.100.com Legislation pending in the Delaware state Senate addresses the shortage of doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Elsmere. The bill would let retired doctors practice again and keep their malpractice insurance coverage intact. Under current law, retired doctors are covered for past malpractice for free but are prohibited from returning […]

Colin McKim http://www.orilliapacket.com/ The shortage of doctors is a planetary problem, says Canada’s Minister of Health. “In the world we are short five million medical professionals,” said Tony Clement during a short stop in Orillia on Friday afternoon. He said Canada’s struggles are echoed in Britain, the U.S., Australia and elsewhere: “We’re all facing the […]

Kris B. Mamula http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com Medical malpractice insurance premiums appear to be falling, evidence that Pennsylvania’s climate for hospitals and doctors is improving, according to a state association representing trial lawyers. But medical groups say the size of malpractice awards in Pennsylvania is rising faster than elsewhere, discouraging doctors from opening practices and making it difficult […]

By Lauren Meade http://www.philly.com