The American College of Physicians (ACP) issued a statement strongly encouraging medical schools to waive Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirements for applicants seeking admission ...
Read More »Medical Students Willing And Able To Assist During COVID-19 Crisis
Medical students should be allowed to serve as clinicians before the health care system reaches a physician breaking point.
Read More »Docs Ask Insurance Companies to Do More For Physicians and Practices During COVID-19
Doctors identify steps that should be taken by insurance companies and others to support physicians and their practices during the COVID-19 emergency.
Read More »When A Doctor’s Screen Time Detracts From Face Time With Patients
As Wei Wei Lee sat with her doctor to discuss starting a family, she felt a “distance” between them. The physician was busy on the ...
Read More »Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
PORTLAND, Ore. — After nearly 40 years as an internist, Dr. Ron Naito knew what the sky-high results of his blood test meant. And it ...
Read More »Republican Immigration Fight Overlooks Need For Doctors
ATLANTA — Dr. Alluri Raju, a native of India, vividly remembers how his ethnicity prompted concern and discrimination in the southwest Georgia town of Richland. ...
Read More »AMA Says GOP’s Health Care Bill Violates ‘First, Do No Harm’
The American Medical Association (AMA) today, in a letter to Senate leaders, outlined its opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Throughout the health system ...
Read More »Doctor Burnout And Suicide At Dangerously High Rates
Doctors are experience burnout at higher rates than ever before and, unfortunately, resolving their conflicts with suicide. “Four hundred U.S. physicians take their own lives ...
Read More »Doctor Gambles With High Deductible Health Plan For Himself, And Loses
All the doctor’s tricks were failing him. He’d tried neck massage, pressure to the eyes, ice on the face. But an hour in, Ashish Jha still couldn’t ...
Read More »Independent Provider Networks Enter Health Care ‘Race To Get Bigger’ By Keeping Things Small
After more than six years since the Affordable Care Act became law in March 2010, officials at the Pennsylvania Medical Society say health care reform has created ...
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