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Texas doctor admits to violating abortion ban
“I understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly.”
Managing Your Practice
Finding employees during a pandemic
I have had job listings for both front- and back-office positions posted on all the major job boards and other employment portals for months.
Opinion
How could this happen? Judge forces doctors to give ivermectin
Even when a consensus on best practice is hard to establish, damage can be mitigated by creating consequences for promoting aberrant care.
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Accelerated approval now full for pembro in bladder cancer
Pembrolizumab is for first-line locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma for patients not eligible for platinum-containing chemotherapy...
Opinion
When the juggling act becomes impossible
Have you ever lost objectivity with a patient?
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Three ‘bad news’ payment changes coming soon for physicians
The proposed rule for physician payments contained three big payment negatives, although there were some positive notes too.
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New CMS rule challenges hospitals, but not vendors, to make EHRs safer
When hospitals and health care systems start to assess their systems, many will be surprised at what they are not doing or not doing right, one...
From the Journals
Fewer inpatient work hours linked with worse patient outcomes
Patients treated by hospitalists who worked more days per year fared better than those treated by hospitalists who worked fewer days, a new study...
From the Journals
Cavernous gender gap in Medicare payments to cardiologists
The differences persisted after adjustment for physician experience and subspecialty, number of charges submitted, unique billing codes used, and...
Feature
Feds slap UPMC, lead cardiothoracic surgeon with fraud lawsuit
The whistleblower suit alleges fraudulent billing tied to concurrent surgeries and ‘longstanding, knowing, and egregious violations of the public...
Feature
Medical power couple launch robot that helps in the labor room
The Shahs and their team were the first to field a robotic system on a labor and delivery unit to aid in the coordination of resources required...