By Marsha Friedman How many times have you dragged yourself to a cocktail party after a 15-hour day examining patients? You’re ready to trade your ...
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By Roni Caryn Rabin Kaiser Health News Many doctors are disturbed they will be paid less — often a lot less — to care for the ...
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Physician-Patient Communication and the First Amendment[1] By Martha Swartz Most physicians believe that they are free to talk—or not talk—with patients about whatever they so ...
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By Patricia A. Costante As we approach 2014, the watershed year for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) implementation, great uncertainty remains about ...
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By Marissa Evans Kaiser Health News Roughly 275,000 “come back, we miss you” emails will be sent in waves this week encouraging consumers who couldn’t ...
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Unlike practicing physicians of today, the physicians of tomorrow are extremely positive about the future of medicine, with some 93 percent saying they are very ...
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By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Florida and New York have roughly the same population, but New York has five times as many Medicare-sponsored residency training ...
Read More »Congress Has Plan to Fix Payments to Physicians
By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News The Democratic And Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the ...
Read More »Study: 11 New Genes Linked to Alzheimer’s
PHILADELPHIA – The largest international Alzheimer’s disease genetics collaboration to date has found 11 new genetic areas of interest that contribute to late onset Alzheimer’s ...
Read More »Healthcare.gov Will Work Smoothly By End of November
By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News The troubled federal health insurance exchange will be fixed by the end of November — two weeks before the ...
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