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AMA president calls on Congress to stabilize Medicare payments to physicians
“Physicians face an array of planned cuts that would reduce Medicare physician payments by nearly 10% for 2022.”
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Online reviews most important factor in choosing a doctor: Survey
A total of 83% of respondents said they went online to read reviews of a physician after receiving a referral from another provider.
From the Journals
Care via video teleconferencing can be as effective as in-person for some conditions
Video teleconferencing works best for monitoring patients with chronic conditions, according to the author of a new paper.
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Seven legal risks of promoting unproven COVID-19 treatments
Depending on the facts, a physician or other health care professional could be charged with reckless endangerment, criminal negligence, or...
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Finding healthcare ‘soul-destroying,’ some turn to online sex work
"I'm done with healthcare and now I'm an online whore."
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Ten changes that could keep clinicians in the workforce in a pandemic
Doctors make checklist of low-cost action items to start addressing a wave of providers leaving medicine.
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Did prior authorization refusals lead to this patient’s death?
Nearly 4 years after major organizations signed a consensus statement agreeing to improve the prior authorization process, physicians say little...
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Patient whips out smartphone and starts recording: Trouble ahead?
“The worry is that there’s a small subset of patients with an ulterior motive.”
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CDC unveils mental health protection plan for health care workers
“It’s long past time for us to care for the people who care for all of us and address burnout in our health care workers,” said U.S. Surgeon...
Conference Coverage
How to deal with offensive or impaired doctors
She recalls a doctor who called a female doctor “an entitled bitch” and the administrator “incompetent” in front of other staff.
Opinion
Medical technology should keep patient in mind
While the stethoscope has literally distanced us from patients, it is such an important tool that we no longer think about this distancing.