The American Hospital Association has launched its Physician Leadership Forum, an organization that will work closely with physicians to identify best practices in value-based care and strengthen physician leadership in hospitals, according to the PLF website. The organization is led by John R. Combes, MD, senior vice president of the AHA. A … [Read more...]
AHA Launches Organization for Hospital Physicians
Drug Shortages Becoming Rising Problem
A recent survey found that many patient care facilities, including physicians’ offices and hospitals, across the nation, are experiencing lack of, and even worse, completely depleted supplies of prescription drugs, making it difficult for doctors to treat patients. The American Hospital Association conducted the survey and The Wall Street … [Read more...]
Stamford Hospital Physicians Recognized as “Top Docs”
Connecticut Magazine has named 90 Stamford Hospital physicians in its annual list of Top Doctors. More than 5,000 questionnaires were sent to doctors from one end of Connecticut to the other asking them to recommend a doctor to whom they would send a loved one for expert medical care. In this year’s survey, the focus was on general internal … [Read more...]
Healthcare Reform a Factor in Increasing Percentage of Physician Shortages
With a lack of advanced medical professionals, the United States will not meet the goals of the healthcare reform. “Currently America faces serious shortages in the combined workforce of physician service providers, advance practice nurses, and physician assistants over the next couple of decades,” according to a study that reported data … [Read more...]
An Alarming New Stimulant, Legal in Many States
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE ZEZIMA Published: July 16, 2011 Doctors say the new drug that people call “bath salts” has unusually dangerous and long-lasting effects. Dr. Jeffrey J. Narmi could not believe what he was seeing this spring in the emergency room at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pa. people arriving so agitated, violent … [Read more...]