Tag Archives: physician

By Carrie Feibel Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place ...

By Mark F. Seltzer, Esq. In prior articles I have written for Physicians’ News Digest, I have brought to your attention your Disability Insurance Company’s ...

In today’s health care environment, even the smallest practices have integrated the use of mobile devices into their daily practices; recordkeeping using laptops, tablets, and ...

Informed consent is an important part of the patient-physician relationship and has implications for other theories of medical malpractice. The principle of “informed consent” has ...

A refusal by your insurance company to pay disability insurance benefits when illness or injury prevents you from practicing in your medical specialty can be ...

At their annual meeting today in Chicago, members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to adopt policy aimed at reducing and managing concussions suffered ...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this week said he would sign a bill to ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy regardless of incest or rape. ...

By Dr. Seth Flam A great deal of debate over whether EHRs actually are improving patient care has occurred over the last few years, and ...

By Trpko Dimovski, MD As a physician, one of the most difficult aspects of my job is battling a patient’s advanced, and sometimes fatal, disease ...

(HealthDay News) — From 1980 to 2010 the Latino physician shortage worsened, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in Academic Medicine. Gloria Sánchez, M.D., ...