Business of Medicine
Feature
Would a national provider directory save docs’ time, help patients?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking for comment on its proposal for the first-ever nationwide directory of health care...
Feature
COVID lawsuits have arrived: Which doctors are at risk?
One factor may be that physicians were doing the best they could at the time but that the pandemic affected the extent of care they could provide...
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Are doctors savers or spenders?
Medscape polled 468 U.S. physicians and 159 living outside of the United States.
Feature
‘Not in our lane’: Physicians rebel at idea they should discuss gun safety with patients
Hundreds of physicians have posted comments on arguments that doctors should bring up gun safety when talking to their patients.
Feature
You and the skeptical patient: Who’s the doctor here?
“I spoke to him on many occasions about the dangers of COVID, but he just didn’t believe me.”
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Baby, that bill is high: Private equity ‘gambit’ squeezes excessive ER charges from routine births
Hospitals of every stripe have opened obstetrics emergency departments, at which patients with any pregnancy or postpartum medical concerns are...
Commentary
Loan forgiveness and med school debt: What about me?
"Many people don't have sympathy out in the public. They say doctors make a large amount of money."
Opinion
The marked contrast in pandemic outcomes between Japan and the United States
Over time Japan has the least cumulative deaths per capita of any major country in the world.
Conference Coverage
Longer boarding times predict patient processing in ED
“Extrapolating this association across the country, we predicted that nearly one million patients may have potentially not received ED care due to...
Conference Coverage
MD and APP-only care benefit patients in the ED
INOVA emergency department developed a Provider-Only Patients (POP) protocol for patients who required minimal nursing care.
Conference Coverage
ED docs seek accountability for violence committed by patients
Acts of violence targeting the professionals who staff America’s emergency departments have gotten significantly worse.