October 23, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
Retail health clinics provide care for routine illnesses at a lower cost and similar quality as offered in physician offices, urgent care centers or emergency departments, according to a new study.
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October 23, 2009
The Society of Hospital Medicine's most recent bi-annual survey, which covers 2007-2008, indicates that hospitalists are young (the mean age is 40) and almost two-thirds (65 percent) are male.
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October 23, 2009
By:Gail Garfinkel Weiss
Alfred J. Maher, MD, differs from most hospital physicians in that he didn't begin working as a hospitalist soon after residency.
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October 23, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
A rule proposed in the health reform legislation would allow health insurers to sell plans across state lines.
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October 23, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
Pfizer allegedly promoted four drugs for off-label indications and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications and therefore not covered by those programs.
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October 23, 2009
By:Gail Garfinkel Weiss
Whether just done with residency, an experienced hospitalist seeking new work, or a private practice physician transitioning to hospitalist work, a job hunt, at the outset, is an exercise in information-gathering.
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October 23, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
The Department of Health and Human Services will join state multi-payer patient-centered medical home demonstration programs next year as a payer.
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October 23, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
Meditation and experience sharing may improve mood and lower feelings of burnout, according to a study in JAMA.
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September 18, 2009
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
If patient information is stolen, practices must notify the affected patients and, in some cases, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and local media, according to new regulations that go into effect on September 23.
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