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MONDAY, Jan. 19, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Physicians work long hours, with most working 40 to 60 hours per week and a considerable proportion working ...
Read More »Docs Work Up To 80 Hours Per Week
Docs Increasingly Ordering Imaging for Headaches
MONDAY, Jan. 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Clinicians are increasingly ordering advanced imaging and referring to other physicians for headache but less often providing counseling, ...
Read More »$375 Billion Annually Wasted on Health Care Paperwork
Medical billing paperwork and insurance-related red tape cost the U.S. economy approximately $471 billion in 2012, 80 percent of which is waste due to the ...
Read More »How Doctors Use Their Free Time
(HealthDay News) — The American Medical Association recently surveyed physicians to find what activities they pursue when not in the exam room. According to the ...
Read More »Medicaid Patient Access At Stake In U.S. Supreme Court Case
WASHINGTON – Jan. 12, 2015 – The American Medical Association (AMA) and a coalition of several health care organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. ...
Read More »Physicians Are Overextended, But The Profession Is Thriving
Doctors are overextended and want to see more trained physicians to thwart an impending shortage, according to a new survey. The Physicians Foundation, a national ...
Read More »Is Gun Trafficking A Pediatric Health Issue?
The discussion of physicians and guns often turns to a privacy issue or things more dangerous to children than firearms. The best-selling book Freakonomics famously ...
Read More »Doctors Must Immediately Urge Congress to Permanently Repeal SGR
The elections are over and Congress is back in Washington to finish remaining legislative business for the year. Urge Congress to stop enacting temporary patches and ...
Read More »Many Physicians Report Their Incomes Have Plateaued
MONDAY, Dec. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Many physicians report that their personal income has not changed since last year, according to the results of ...
Read More »High Rates of Medical Resident Suicides: “We know how to kill ourselves.”
After recently graduating medical school and impressing hospital staff as a young intern, a New York City physician committed suicide in August. Just a few ...
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