Health-care employers continued hiring at a brisk pace last month even as overall employment growth slowed down.
Health-care employment will continue to grow much faster than employment generally, with the number of jobs in home care and other ambulatory settings projected to jump more than 40 percent by 2020, a new study suggests.
One in seven of U.S. surgeons reported drinking habits consistent with alcohol abuse or dependence, according to a new survey by UW researchers. Drinking problems were even higher among women surgeons of whom one in four, 25.6 percent, reported drinking habits consistent with abuse or dependence.
In-store medical clinics like those at Walmart – having established a beachhead with relatively healthy patients looking for convenient, low-cost care for simple problems – are eyeing a bigger prize, the millions of Americans with costly illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease.
More and more patients looking for a doctor are going to physician-rating websites. But experts say that these sites are still not as useful as they could be and, in some cases, are misleading potential patients with incorrect or out-of-date information.
One Saturday evening when Phil Dyer was puttering around the garden of his home in Issaquah, he felt his heart begin to race, and his throat constricted so much that he could barely breathe. His wife drove him to the emergency department, a freestanding facility two miles away that’s operated by Swedish Medical Center.
Patients aren’t crowding into emergency rooms because they can’t get insurance, say ER physicians, but because they can’t find doctors.
Ongoing disclosures reveal drug manufacturers have paid out $390 million to doctors since 2009.
Doctors who accept speaking fees and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names and the value of the gifts on the Web.
To learn more: Visit the White House Healthcare Issue page. Visit the American Medical Association’s Web site.
President Barack Obama’s Remarks at the American Medical Association Annual Meeting in Chicago As Released By The White House, June 15, 2009 From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. [...]
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