Illinois medical regulators have suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug clozapine than any other doctor in the country. The state’s medical disciplinary board recommended the sanction in May...
The growing physician assistant (PA) field has led some medical schools to expand their PA programs in order to offset the looming physician shortage. Northern Arizona University will use a recent $1.5 million grant to expand teaching space for its PA program. Meanwhile, Lynchburg College in...
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
Is your organization looking for family medicine practitioners or internal medicine physicians? Wondering why the search is taking so long? Merritt Hawkins’ “2014 Review Of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” spots some interesting trends that might already be...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
Medicaid patients who visit the emergency department (ED) are seeking treatment for urgent and serious problems, according to a new report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, using the most recent salary figures from 2012, the total cash compensation of 147 non-profit hospital CEOs increased an average of 24% from the previous year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried, MD, to pay $40,000 to a nurse at King’s Daughter Medical Center (KDMC) in Ashland, Kentucky, who sued him for assault and battery.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
“Every day clinicians yell at nurses. They bully, they prod, they rush off the phone before fully answering questions. I have done it many times myself. The phenomena is so common that most nurses and secretaries accept it as part of the job.”
Jordan Grumet...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 33
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a piece about a surgeon ordered to pay $40,000 to a nurse for kicking her. From the nurse’s testimony, the surgeon had a history of this type of behavior. I don’t work in a hospital so maybe I’m a little out...
If you think the tension between managers and medical staff is something unique to healthcare in the United States, this recent BusinessWeek article might provide small...
