Tag: Physicians

Can retailers revamp primary care?

Can retailers revamp primary care?

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.

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November 18, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Using Physician Rating Websites

Using Physician Rating Websites

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sites are still not as useful as they could be and, in some cases, are misleading potential patients with incorrect or out-of-date information.

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November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Swedish's Issaquah Emergency Department

Emergency care, but not at a hospital

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.

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May 31, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Docs: Health law will make ER crowding worse

Docs: Health law will make ER crowding worse

Patients aren’t crowding into emergency rooms because they can’t get insurance, say ER physicians, but because they can’t find doctors.

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April 29, 2011 | 0 Comments More
HIV drug maker pays out millions to doctors

HIV drug maker pays out millions to doctors

Ongoing disclosures reveal drug manufacturers have paid out $390 million to doctors since 2009.

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February 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New health law will require industry to disclose payments to physicians

New health law will require industry to disclose payments to physicians

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.

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April 26, 2010 | 0 Comments More
President Obama’s address to the AMA

President Obama’s address to the AMA

To learn more: Visit the White House Healthcare Issue page. Visit the American Medical Association’s Web site.

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June 16, 2009 | 0 Comments More
Transcript: Obama addresses AMA

Transcript: Obama addresses AMA

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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June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment More