• Medscape would like to know your opinion about the practice of soliciting patients to raise money. (medscape.com)
  • The doctor-patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • The default medical practice for showing respect to patients and their families is for the doctor to be truthful in informing the patient of their health and to be direct in asking for the patient's consent before giving treatment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The majority (60.7%) of physicians were in small practices of 10 or fewer physicians, and that practice size changed very little between 2012 and 2014 in the face of profound structural reforms to health care delivery," said AMA President-elect Andrew W. Gurman , M.D. (prnewswire.com)
  • Rodrigues added, "As a company serving independent practices, our observation is that the nation is actually going into the golden age of private practice, with small offices and groups doing precisely what Dr. Mayer stated. (prnewswire.com)
  • At visits where no modification of customary practice was required, 73 percent of physicians provided error-free care. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Learn more with the AMA about how to financially sustain integrated care to address patients' mental health needs in your physician private practice. (ama-assn.org)
  • In practice 20 physicians had attempted to use an ophthalmoscope and only 9 could see details of the retina. (who.int)
  • Nearly a quarter of all physicians in the U.S. said they planned to quit in the next two years, according to a recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, However, for those still looking to practice medicine there may be another way: gig work. (wwlp.com)
  • A specialist was away from their practice, somebody's on maternity leave or is going to be on vacation, so you needed a placeholder doctor to be there to fill in in that capacity. (wwlp.com)
  • Temporary positions require doctors to fulfill credentials and licensing requirements for every state or facility they practice in. (wwlp.com)
  • Legal wrangling aside, in practice, physicians and hospital lawyers say much depends on the interpretation of vaguely worded exceptions in state abortion bans, and that's further complicated by the existence of contradictory laws, such as those banning abortion based on cardiac activity. (salon.com)
  • Specifically, our methodology - combining interactive virtual patient vignette technology, experimental design, and expansive open-ended interview protocol - generated valid explanations for variations in primary care physician practice patterns related to depression care. (nih.gov)
  • Patients' sexual harassment of staff can have devastating consequences for a medical practice. (aao.org)
  • 2024 Medicare Physician Payment Schedule final rule released and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update. (ama-assn.org)
  • The guidance stressed that this federal requirement supersedes any state laws that bar abortion, and that hospitals and physicians who don't comply with the federal mandate could face civil fines and termination from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (salon.com)
  • Lastly, AMA will support, upon reclassification of CRT as a distinct category, the development by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with the advice of physicians with appropriate training and expertise, of appropriate, simplified and streamlined requirements specific to CRT that reduce the administrative burden on physicians. (aapmr.org)
  • At the same time, he lamented that the legislation does not repeal the Medicare physician payment formula that threatens to cut what doctors receive from the program. (cnn.com)
  • She particularly liked a 10% increase in Medicare payments to all primary care physicians for certain services, including preventive visits, management of new diagnoses and related follow-up visits and management of acute medical problems. (cnn.com)
  • Medicare, enacted in 1965, had increased the demand for physicians throughout the country. (stanford.edu)
  • Physicians urge action on proposed 3.36% Medicare pay cut in 2024 and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update. (ama-assn.org)
  • Visits to outpatient departments showed a different payment source pattern: 37% of patients were covered by private insurance, 19% by Medicare, and 26% by Medicaid. (cdc.gov)
  • During this meeting, Dr. Stuart Glassman was elected to serve as a Member-At-Large on the Specialty and Service Society Caucus (SSS) Governing Council . (aapmr.org)
  • Providers shown based on Dr. Li's location and specialty. (healthgrades.com)
  • Hippocratic Oath) Additionally, the healthiness of a doctor-patient relationship is essential to keep the quality of the patient's healthcare high as well as to ensure that the doctor is functioning at their optimum. (wikipedia.org)
  • In more recent times, healthcare has become more patient-centered and this has brought a new dynamic to this ancient relationship. (wikipedia.org)
  • A strong relationship between the doctor and patient may lead to frequent, freely-offered quality information about the patient's disease and as a result, better healthcare for the patient and their family. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nearly 50,000 doctors in the U.S. are taking locum tenens assignments in 2022, according to CHG Healthcare, a medical staffing company. (wwlp.com)
  • U.S. primary care doctors are the most sought-after, according to CHG Healthcare data. (wwlp.com)
  • Eisig notes that some of the biggest challenges to effectively communicating with patients stem from growing bureaucracy within healthcare and are not so easily remedied. (medscape.com)
  • Estimates based on sampled visits to office-based physicians and hospital outpatient department clinics. (cdc.gov)
  • The NAMCS CLAS supplement was designed as a self-administered paper questionnaire to assess office-based physicians' training, awareness, and organizational policies related to CLAS. (cdc.gov)
  • Independent physicians are increasingly aware that, while significant challenges exist for independent practices, there is a new optimism as helpful technology is allowing practices to succeed at costs much lower than in the past. (prnewswire.com)
  • We're seeing these new practices being opened by physicians who are prepared to improve quality of care, keep costs down and operate successfully with a level of freedom unavailable to their employed peers. (prnewswire.com)
  • The study used actors trained to simulate real patients in 400 visits to a wide range of physician practices in Chicago and Milwaukee, including several VA sites. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The survey, conducted for The Boston Globe by the SERMO physicians social network, offers fresh evidence of the changes in prescribing practices in response to the opioid crisis that has killed thousands in New England and elsewhere around the country. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Knowledge, attitudes and practices of 40 randomly selected physicians was assessed in the North Sharqiya region of Oman in 2003. (who.int)
  • We evaluated non-ophthalmologist physicians' knowledge of techniques of eye examination of diabetic patients, attitudes towards fundus examination and practices of detailed eye examination. (who.int)
  • Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as fluid and contingent, we conceptualize medicine access as situated everyday practices and physician-patient encounters as embedded in sociomaterial configurations. (lu.se)
  • But it doesn't come without challenges, especially for hospitals and physicians who rely on them. (wwlp.com)
  • That 1986 law requires hospitals and physicians to provide screening and stabilizing treatment - including abortion, if necessary - in emergency situations. (salon.com)
  • In a July policy guidance and letter , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed that EMTALA requires hospitals and physicians to offer life- or health-saving medical services, including abortion, in emergency situations. (salon.com)
  • and for each case they had matched black and white actors randomly assigned to physicians. (sciencedaily.com)
  • for the Globe's survey, the company randomly selected 25,000 American doctors. (bostonglobe.com)
  • FINDINGS: Among a sample of 404 randomly selected primary care physicians, our voice-activated interactive methodology appeared to be effective. (nih.gov)
  • The need for transparent dialogue between doctors and nurses is a given, but now greater attention is being paid to the interactions between caregivers and patients, and how those relationships affect health outcomes. (upenn.edu)
  • Is the training for doctors, nurses and the staff at a facility like the Cleveland Clinic being tweaked so that this patient experience is a growing part of their whole understanding of what it is to be a doctor or a nurse these days? (upenn.edu)
  • How much of teaching does the Cleveland Clinic have to do on top of what the doctors and nurses learn in school? (upenn.edu)
  • That's a list I'd like to see more doctors and nurses check off before they start their shifts. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Nearly half of all emergency physicians (myself included) have been assaulted, and ER nurses are verbally abused and physically attacked so often that this violence has shamefully come to be seen as just another part of their job [ 7 ]. (medpagetoday.com)
  • it's led to overloaded patient rosters and burnt-out nurses and doctors. (wwlp.com)
  • So, like traveling nurses , many doctors are transitioning into temporary physicians-for-hire, tapping into a demand for their services, especially as hospitals face staffing shortages across the nation. (wwlp.com)
  • Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (salon.com)
  • Amid a burnout epidemic, resident and fellow physicians deserve a stronger voice to determine workplace policies that shape well-being. (ama-assn.org)
  • CHICAGO ( NewsNation ) - In the world of medicine, part-time work was usually reserved for doctors transitioning into retirement, but amid an uptick in physician burnout rates, many are opting to make full-time careers out of temporary jobs. (wwlp.com)
  • According to the American Medical Association, burnout rates exploded over the last several years, with a 25% spike in the number of physicians who reported at least one burnout symptom. (wwlp.com)
  • The Joy in Medicineâ„¢ Health System Recognition Program can spark and guide organizations interested, committed, or already engaged in improving physician satisfaction and reducing burnout. (ama-assn.org)
  • Learn more about physician burnout at each career stage, and how one medical group offers doctors concrete steps to improve well-being. (ama-assn.org)
  • Some medical specialties, such as psychiatry and family medicine, emphasize the physician-patient relationship more than others, such as pathology or radiology, which have very little contact with patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • The percentage who believed patients had been hurt by reductions in prescribing differed little among specialties: 36 percent of all specialties, 38 percent of family doctors, and 34 percent of internists. (bostonglobe.com)
  • In certain "high risk" medical specialties like neurosurgery and obstetrics, almost every practicing doctor will be sued at least once [ 4 ]. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Still others work alongside physicians in specialties such as cardiology, adjusting pacemakers or running tests. (stanford.edu)
  • Kareo and Independent Physicians Respond to Kocher Editorial in Wall Street Journal with an 'Amen! (prnewswire.com)
  • The study found that physicians were more likely to respond to the biomedical rather than contextual red flags even when both were equally important to planning appropriate care. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Many incidents involve comments by patients, said Ms. Lee, and although staff members can find such remarks discomfiting, they're not quite sure how to respond and often don't report the incident. (aao.org)
  • These techniques defuse situations so that physicians can respond in a way that maintains rapport with patients and preserves the patient-physician bond, "while still protecting yourself and protecting your colleagues. (aao.org)
  • Few studies have involved a word-by-word analysis of doctor-patient meetings to assess how doctors respond to patients' worries about their own mortality, possible mistrust of medical care and the emotions arising from a deadly diagnosis. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Respond to reviews, add information, and reach more patients. (healthgrades.com)
  • In the wake of the pandemic, senior physicians are retiring at an accelerated rate-but shouldn't-according to Gerald Harmon, MD, former AMA president. (ama-assn.org)
  • The AAPM&R delegation was represented by Drs. Susan Hubbell (AMA Delegate and PM&R Section Council Chair), Stuart Glassman (AMA Delegate), Carlo Milani (Young Physician Section Representative, Alternate Delegate), and Julie Witkowski (Resident and Fellow Section Representative, Alternate Delegate). (aapmr.org)
  • AAPM&R congratulates Dr. Glassman for being elected to serve in this prestigious role and for his continued dedication to organized medicine. (aapmr.org)
  • AAPM&R Treasurer Atul T. Patel, MD, MHSA, FAAPMR, vice president at Kansas City Bone and Joint Clinic, was recently featured in an interview with Patient Care Online discussing the wide range of patients he treats, the increase in referrals he receives from primary care doctors and inequity in access to health care. (aapmr.org)
  • If you're worried about how many physician residency interview invitations you're getting, learn about the steps you can take to improve your situation. (ama-assn.org)
  • Learn how Geisinger's family medicine residency program trains doctors to care for patients in underserved areas with limited resources. (ama-assn.org)
  • In 2009, an estimated 1,038 million visits were made to physician offices and 96 million visits to hospital outpatient department clinics for ambulatory care. (cdc.gov)
  • The downstream effects of this mistrust may include decreased patient adherence to the physician's medical advice, which could result in poorer health outcomes for the patient. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicians are learning to create deeper relationships with patients to improve health outcomes, says Cleveland Clinic neurologist Adrienne Boissy. (upenn.edu)
  • As a result, ill-informed patients tend to neglect timely treatment which can lead to very bad - sometimes disastrous - outcomes," said Dr. Sidney Eisig of Columbia University's College of Dental Medicine in New York, who wasn't involved in the study. (medscape.com)
  • Unlike real patients, the actors, or "unannounced standardized patients," consistently adhere to a script, enabling researchers to make comparisons of physicians' performance across the visits, said co-author Alan Schwartz, a methodologist and UIC associate professor of clinical decision-making. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But at visits where individualizing care required an alternative to the customary treatment, only 22 percent of physicians provided error-free care during a contextually complicated encounter, 28 percent during a biomedically complicated encounter, and 9 percent during a combined contextually and biomedically complicated encounter. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But what we found was that among those visits where physicians did a great job identifying contextual issues and addressing them, they did not on average spend any more time with patients than the physicians who didn't recognize contextual issues. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Doctors are being more careful with opioid prescriptions as addiction and its effects get more recognition. (bostonglobe.com)
  • More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Just over half of all respondents had cut back on opioid prescribing within the past two years or so, while more than two-thirds of family medicine and internal medicine doctors had done so. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Although it's unknown whether those who chose to reply to the survey are representative of physicians overall, the findings align with other data showing a reduction in opioid prescribing. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Kertesz recently published an article in the journal Substance Abuse showing that physician prescribing no longer plays a major role in sustaining the opioid epidemic, which is now driven by heroin and illicit fentanyl. (bostonglobe.com)
  • While most doctor-patient interactions end to the satisfaction of both parties, many do not. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In your title and the work that you do there, it is a point of emphasis for you because the experience is not just how the patient is treated when they're being looked at by a doctor or a nurse, but it's the whole experience of coming to the hospital and the neighborhood around the hospital. (upenn.edu)
  • It's important to understand that before you're a staff physician or a nurse out on the floor, when you're in school or a student, you have minimal responsibility. (upenn.edu)
  • Physician assistants, also known as physician associates, are on par with nurse practitioners in that they are able to see patients, diagnose illnesses and prescribe medications. (stanford.edu)
  • A doctor-patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends to a patient's medical needs and is usually through consent. (wikipedia.org)
  • This relationship is built on trust, respect, communication, and a common understanding of both the doctor and patients' sides. (wikipedia.org)
  • The trust aspect of this relationship goes is mutual: the doctor trusts the patient to reveal any information that may be relevant to the case, and in turn, the patient trusts the doctor to respect their privacy and not disclose this information to outside parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • A ceremonial dynamic of the doctor-patient relationship is that the doctor is encouraged by oath to follow certain ethical guidelines. (wikipedia.org)
  • The quality of the patient-physician relationship is important to both parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • The doctor and patient's values and perspectives about disease, life, and time available play a role in building up this relationship. (wikipedia.org)
  • Enhancing both the accuracy of the diagnosis and the patient's knowledge about the disease contributes to a good relationship between the doctor and the patient. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a poor doctor-patient relationship, the physician's ability to make a full assessment may be compromised and the patient may be more likely to distrust the diagnosis and proposed treatment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Michael and Enid Balint together pioneered the study of the physician patient relationship in the UK. (wikipedia.org)
  • Addressing the behavior, rather than the harasser, can help de-escalate situations and educate the patient "in a way that allows you to have a productive patient-physician relationship moving forward," said Dr. Polski. (aao.org)
  • Physicians did quite well at following guidelines or standard approaches to care, but not so well at figuring out when those approaches were inappropriate because of a particular patient's situation or life context," said Dr. Saul Weiner, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at UIC and staff physician at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, who was lead author of the study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In answering how long a patient has left to live, a doctor might say "that's a really scary question" and acknowledge the patient's misfortune. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providers in many fields, including emergency room settings, surgery requiring anesthetics and breast cancer clinics, grapple with how best to effectively communicate with patients. (medscape.com)
  • Weiner said physicians need to understand why a patient is failing, for instance, to control their asthma, rather than just increase the dose of the drugs they prescribe. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Instead, they make doctors reluctant to prescribe opioids. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Please do not use this form to submit personal or patient medical information or to report adverse drug events. (medscape.com)
  • In these circumstances, and also in cases where there is genuine divergence of medical opinions, a second opinion from another physician may be sought, or the patient may choose to go to another physician that they trust more. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recognizing that patients receive the best care when they work in partnership with doctors, the UK General Medical Council issued guidance for both of doctors named "Ethical guidance for doctors", as well as for patients "What to expect from your doctor" in April 2013. (wikipedia.org)
  • Historically in many cultures there has been a shift from paternalism, the view that the "doctor always knows best", to the idea that patients must have a choice in the provision of their care and be given the right to provide informed consent to medical procedures. (wikipedia.org)
  • At each clinic, identities were created along with medical records and insurance information for the actor-patients. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As policy makers sought to tackle the abuse problem, "the physicians were an easy group to target," said Dr. Joseph Audette, chief of pain management at Atrius Health, a large Massachusetts medical group. (bostonglobe.com)
  • When faced with violent patients, the med-cam might offer the same benefits to medical staff as it does to the police. (medpagetoday.com)
  • But, bottom line, this kind of recording will be good for patients, their families and the medical teams who care for them. (medpagetoday.com)
  • That's nearly 7% of all U.S. physicians, excluding foreign medical school graduates, and a nearly 90% spike from 2015. (wwlp.com)
  • Yet, many medical professionals are concerned that greater reliance on temporary doctors could be disruptive to patients, especially in fields such as oncology or obstetrics, the Wall Street Journal reported . (wwlp.com)
  • Maybe they have to start from scratch because they aren't really clear on what's going on," Dr. Gail Gazelle, a physician coach and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, explained to the WSJ. (wwlp.com)
  • Given the new law, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has streamlined its system of having an administrator and legal team on call for Puterbaugh and other physicians if anyone questions whether the planned treatment is allowed under the law. (salon.com)
  • Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, Puterbaugh said these cases put her and doctors like her in an impossible position - squeezing doctors between anti-abortion laws in Ohio and other states and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act. (salon.com)
  • But Dr. Diane Morse of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York said the findings reinforce other research showing doctors fall short in the simple act of acknowledging the emotional difficulties of their patients' predicament. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Reuters Health) - When patients misunderstand commonly used medical terms, communication and decision-making may suffer, UK researchers say. (medscape.com)
  • Emma Hayes of King's College Hospital, London, and her colleagues recruited 123 patients waiting for their appointments at the hospital's outpatient clinic to anonymously answer questionnaires about the meanings of several medical terms. (medscape.com)
  • Dr. Guizhu Li, MD is an anatomic & clinical pathology specialist in Pittsburgh, PA and has over 39 years of experience in the medical field. (healthgrades.com)
  • Dr. Guizhu Li, MD is an Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Specialist in Pittsburgh, PA and has over 40 years of experience in the medical field. (healthgrades.com)
  • The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest physician group, applauded new measures to increase payments for primary care physicians caring for Medicaid patients and give bonus payments to physicians who work in underserved areas. (cnn.com)
  • After two years of classwork and clinical training, Langone would be a certified physician assistant, able to care for patients under the supervision of a medical doctor. (stanford.edu)
  • The goal was to ease a national shortage of doctors by providing medical training to veterans who had experience treating patients. (stanford.edu)
  • As with all chronic medical conditions, effective management of obesity must be based on a partnership between a highly motivated patient and a committed team of health professionals. (medscape.com)
  • This was a small study - appointments between doctors and 10 patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Houston were audiotaped and analyzed for whether the physicians provided empathy for the plight of these people with a deadly illness. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Researchers identified 384 times during these appointments when patients mentioned such concerns or emotions. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The leaders of the New Jersey strike announce their intention to "cause confusion and inconvenience," pressure reluctant colleagues "both professionally and economically just as any other 'scab'," divert blame from malpractice insurers, and not reschedule cancelled patient appointments in order to "significantly inconvenience them. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • New Jersey physicians have shown their real intention is not to protest insurance premium hikes but to terrorize patients, colleagues and the public into becoming converts to their cause," said Doug Heller, senior consumer advocate with FTCR. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Any physician who doesn't want to participate shows just how disrespectful he is of his colleagues and of his profession. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Dr. Laura J. Simpson, a family medicine physician in Marblehead, sees benefits in the publicity about opioids' harms: It paves the way for doctors to discuss why they won't write a prescription for every pang. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or infection. (salon.com)
  • One reason for this finding, the authors note, is that independent physician groups have stronger incentives to prevent hospitalizations than hospital-owned groups. (prnewswire.com)
  • A study by JAMA in 2014 illustrated a substantial difference in mean costs for services provided by independent doctors, hospital-owned doctors and multi-hospital-owned doctors. (prnewswire.com)
  • Patients often receive inappropriate care when their doctors fail to take into account their individual circumstances, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Patients often receive inappropriate care when their doctors fail to take into account their individual circumstances, according to a new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the VA Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The study of physician performance is the largest ever to be conducted using actors presenting as patients in doctors' offices. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The doctors had all agreed to participate in the study but were not told which patients were actors. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The study looked at whether the physician picked up on the red flags and implemented an appropriate care plan for each of the case variants. (sciencedaily.com)
  • AIM AND METHOD: The primary aim of this methods-focused paper was to review the extent to which our study method - an interactive CD-ROM patient vignette methodology - was effective in capturing variation in physician behaviour. (nih.gov)
  • The Reference Committee felt that a study on this issue would be beneficial to offer guidance to physicians. (aapmr.org)
  • In this study, the doctors and patients knew the sessions were being recorded. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • In a survey of London oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic patients, more than a third of participants did not know the meaning of terms like benign or lesion and more than half could not define metastasis or lymph node, the study team reported online December 1 in the British Dental Journal. (medscape.com)
  • A physician assistant training program that began in 1971 to certify battlefield medics returning from Vietnam has evolved into a sought-after master's degree. (stanford.edu)
  • Michael Balint's "The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness" (1957) outlined several case histories in detail and became a seminal text. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.S. researchers who assessed interactions between a small group of people with lung cancer and their doctors found physicians provided little emotional support even when patients seemed to be searching for it. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • When patients made comments on topics like the personal impact of cancer, their diagnosis and treatment and struggles with the health care system, doctors responded with words of empathy only 10 percent of the time, the researchers said. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Communication between patient and practitioner is essential, the researchers write, but it may not be happening as often as doctors think it is. (medscape.com)
  • Cindy Steinberg, a national advocate for pain patients, speculates that doctors probably don't follow up after referring patients to other care, and may not know that many can't afford it. (bostonglobe.com)
  • This resolution requested that AMA reaffirm current AMA policy, stating it supports stricter enforcement of current federal and state gun legislation and requested that AMA advocate for physician-led committees in each state to give further recommendations to the state regarding driving and/or gun use by individuals who are cognitively impaired and/or a danger to themselves or others. (aapmr.org)
  • Informing these violent patients that their behavior is being recorded on a personal med-cam will de-escalate many confrontations, to the benefit of all the parties, and help to support the actions of staff when, as a last resort, physical or chemical restraints are needed. (medpagetoday.com)
  • For years now, cameras have recorded the behavior of staff (and patients) in ER trauma room, during newborn resuscitations and even in the colonoscopy suite [ 8 , 9 ]. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In fact, the average physician spends almost 11% of a 40-year career with an open malpractice claim [ 6 ]. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Santa Monica, CA - As Illinois physicians strike today over their malpractice rates, a secret e-mail from striking New Jersey doctors offers a rare glimpse at the cynical strategizing behind the scenes among the doctors who staged the walkout. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Putting patients at risk for cynical political ends is moral malpractice. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • According to one of the e-mails, doctors must not "talk about your falling income, rotten HMO's, your busy life, the cost of vacations and cars, your malpractice history. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • However, Heim pointed out flaws not addressed, including malpractice reform , controlling costs and shifting the system to be more focused on patient outcome and not the number of procedures performed. (cnn.com)
  • Have your staff members been sexually harassed by patients? (aao.org)
  • Support-ing residents, physicians, and staff is critical for personnel retention, said Dr. Katz, of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and the John A. Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City. (aao.org)
  • A lot of primary care doctors feel like they can't comply. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Another e-mail calls for ostracizing physicians that do not strike through economic pressure, presumably by not offering referrals. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • In addition, a Canadian physician known as Sir William Osler was known as one of the "Big Four" professors at the time that the Johns Hopkins Hospital was first founded. (wikipedia.org)
  • We know that patients are making choices about where they're going to go and who they're going to see based on the experience that they have at that hospital or organization. (upenn.edu)
  • After he graduated in 1975, his career took him to rural California and Oregon, where he acted as a general practitioner, then to a hospital in California's Central Valley, where he cared for patients in an emergency department. (stanford.edu)
  • The patient experience is one of the most important focuses that hospitals have these days, right? (upenn.edu)
  • We've been thinking a lot about patient experience for probably the past decade. (upenn.edu)
  • I don't know how familiar you are with Toby Cosgrove's story in that, but that was really the spark that lit the fire for us around patient experience. (upenn.edu)
  • Not only is patient experience valued, but we're transparent about how organizations and individual doctors, clinicians are performing. (upenn.edu)
  • More doctors are considering locum tenens , Latin for "placeholder," and the term the health care industry uses to describe temporary-gig physicians. (wwlp.com)
  • NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The House's approval of a measure to reform and revamp the nation's health care system was praised Monday by consumer groups, given mixed reviews by doctors and got a thumbs down from insurers. (cnn.com)
  • Some of the nation's leading physician groups called the new health care legislation a step in the right direction, but said that it still does not address all of their concerns. (cnn.com)
  • The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. (ama-assn.org)
  • and AMA will support physicians and physicians-in-training education programs about legal rights related to accommodation and freedom from discrimination for physicians, patients, and employees with disabilities. (aapmr.org)
  • Doctors turning to temp work, but is it good for patients? (wwlp.com)
  • Dr. Ripal Patel, an emergency physician and an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, said there are many reasons why doctors are making the shift to temporary work. (wwlp.com)
  • To date, measures of doctors' performance have focused on situations where knowledge of the individual patient is ignored," said Weiner. (sciencedaily.com)
  • That's why the workshops that Dr. Polski recently presented at Moran Eye Center, which were adapted from a University of Iowa workshop, used role-play so that participants could try responding to different scenarios. (aao.org)
  • Dr. Stefan G. Kertesz, a professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine, has witnessed the downside of that trend: chronic pain patients who have essentially been abandoned by their doctors in the stampede away from opioids. (bostonglobe.com)
  • This article aims to deepen understandings of physician-patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. (lu.se)
  • Doctors face myriad pressures as they struggle to treat addiction and chronic pain, two complex conditions in which most physicians receive little training. (bostonglobe.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Some primary care physicians provide less than optimal care for depression (Kessler et al. (nih.gov)
  • In what setting do you typically provide care to the most patients? (cdc.gov)