Practice Management
Clinical Review
Amniotic fluid embolism: Management using a checklist
Because AFEs are rare, with a high mortality rate, using a visual aid that includes several time-critical steps for management...
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Inflation and health care: The prognosis for doctors
“Staff wages, as well as office equipment and medical supply costs, are increasing faster than insurance and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement...
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Docs reveal perils of giving medical advice to friends and family
“If you gave medical advice without having assessed them, you’re lacking the medical history, a physical exam, and you should not be giving advice...
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Physicians react: Compensation isn’t worth the hassles. What’s the solution?
A family physician lamented that he has “made less in the past 3 years, with more hassles and work” and he “can’t wait to retire next year.”
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Lawmakers argue for changes in prior authorization processes
Reports from a federal watchdog agency find patterns of denials of prior authorization requests of covered services by insurer-run Medicare...
Commentary
Murder of physician raises the stress level for all clinicians
Most of us would find it unbearable to live and work under the kind of stress faced by medical professionals today.
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‘My malpractice insurance doubled!’ Why, when fewer patients are suing?
Quiz
Guidelines vary on what age to begin screening for cervical cancer. What age do you typically recommend for patients?
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Insurer told to pay $5.2 million to woman who caught STD in a car
GEICO filed for the award to be overturned, alleging it had been denied due process and that the arbitration deal was unenforceable.
Expert Commentary
Defending access to reproductive health care
If precedents set in Roe v Wade are overturned, ObGyns have several immediate and long-term challenges
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Substance use the main cause of physician license actions
“What appears to account for the difference is physician distress, and in the case of drug abuse, plentiful access.”