As hospitals prepared for a surge of COVID patients, officials advised people to avoid emergency rooms if possible. But soon ER physicians noticed that even truly urgent cases were not coming in.
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The AMA is announced guidance to help medical schools and health systems make responsible decisions about how to safely incorporate medical students.
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In Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, where hospitalizations from COVID-19 increase each day, shuttered hospitals that once served the city’s poor and uninsured sit empty. But reopening closed hospitals, even in a public health emergency, is difficult.
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Laurie Cook went shopping recently for a mammogram near her home in New Hampshire. Using an online tool provided through her insurer, she plugged in ...
Read More »Trump’s Proposed H-1B Visa Reforms Could Be Bad For Doctors, Hospitals and Patients
By Michelle Andrews Limiting the number of foreign doctors who can get visas to practice in the United States could have a significant impact on ...
Read More »Doc: My Experience With A Physician Refresher Program
(Editor’s Note: Back in 2010, we published an article on a program at Drexel University concentrating on physician re-entry. Following is an editorial by a ...
Read More »VA Hospital Care Rates Just As Well As Private Centers
Veterans Affairs hospitals seem to do just as well as other U.S. hospitals when it comes to treating older men with heart disease or pneumonia, ...
Read More »Medicine does not take off for Christmas; Neither do doctors
Whether it’s delivering the first baby of the New Year or attending to an accident victim, for some medical professionals Christmas and New Year’s Day ...
Read More »Hospitals neglect practices to combat ER overcrowding
Crowded emergency departments have been vexing patients and hospital staff for years as consumers have increasingly sought care there. But a new study finds that many of ...
Read More »Vice President Biden Calls for Renewed Focus on Patient Safety
By Anna Gorman Kaiser Health News Hospitals need to focus more on reducing preventable errors and infections and the government must create more economic incentives ...
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