Do No Harm? An Ethics Survey of Doctors
Eight of 10 doctors strongly agree that they should put patient welfare before their own financial...
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Business of Medicine
Report: 20% of Orthopedic Surgeons’ Imaging Orders Are Defensive
About 20% of scans ordered by orthopedic surgeons appear to be “defensive imaging,” primarily...
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Docs Rate 18% of Patients as “Difficult”
Almost 18% of patients are considered difficult by physicians, according to a new study — which...
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Hospital-Based Physicians Could See 2.3% Pay Hike in 2011
Hospital-based physicians are predicted to receive a 2.3% increase in base salary in 2011,...
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Balancing Life With a Career in Surgery
Graduate surgical education has changed significantly during the past 20 years. Several events...
Read MoreElectronic Health Records Present Potential Malpractice Threat
One of the highly touted benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) is reducing malpractice incidents and medical errors by providing improved documentation, an automatic safeguard against medication errors and drug...
Read MoreMedicare Payment Cut to MDs Delayed — For Now
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to delay a 23% Medicare payment cut to physicians that was scheduled for Wednesday, December 1, according to the Associated Press. The one-month delay will provide physicians with a...
Read MoreNew Surveys Classify Pharma Access to Physicians
A new survey of physician access preferences found that nearly half of physicians require or prefer appointments by pharmaceutical sales reps to be scheduled. This percentage appears to significantly increase when practices are...
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Success in Recruiting Pediatric Specialists
Hospitals and healthcare systems have continued to struggle with recruiting and retaining top...
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Laparoscopy: Patients Benefit, But Do Surgeons Suffer?
When compared with open surgical techniques, the benefits of minimally invasive surgery have been...
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Doctors Rationalize Accepting Industry Gifts
Have you ever accepted a free pen, dinner, or trip from a pharmaceutical company in “reward” for...
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Improved Communication Benefits Surgical ICUs
In complex environments like surgical ICUs, integrated team performance and effective...
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How Operative Duration Affects Clinical Outcomes
Infectious complications, particularly surgical site infections (SSIs), are well documented to...
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Experimental Paint Kills MRSA Bacteria
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created nanoscale coating for surgical...
Read MoreMeasuring Preventable Harm
Although the healthcare community has expressed a strong desire to measure safety outcomes, accomplishing this feat has been challenging due to poor investment in the basic science of patient safety. There is a need for basic...
Read MoreThe 8 Rights of Safe EHR Use
The recent passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus package is putting tremendous pressure on physicians in small practices and larger healthcare organizations to implement state-of-the-art...
Read MoreA Modest Reform Proposal
The past few decades have been difficult for many doctors in the United States. Physician anxiety is increasing in many ways, attributable to workplace violence, pressure to provide healthcare to a sicker population with fewer...
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