“We must all confront the intangible and often devastating effects of stigma. The key to recovery is support and compassion. Patients in pain and patients with a substance-use disorder need comprehensive treatment, not judgment.”
The American Medical Association, Pennsylvania Medical Society, and Manatt Health released the first set of results in a series of studies examining state responses to opioid abuse; these particular results focused on the efforts made in Pennsylvania. The results reveal that access to evidence-...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 12
Locum tenens agencies provide temporary staffing and specialize in finding, engaging, placing, and paying suitable physicians in short work assignments within different facilities.
Peer review remains a vital part of both credentialing and privileging, and it is indicative of the desire to pursue physician excellence. Beyond the need to meet regulatory requirements, when peer review is done from a performance improvement perspective, it provides the opportunity for the...
Eighty-five percent of physicians think it is never acceptable to cover up or avoid revealing a mistake if that mistake would cause harm to the patient. This is just one of the findings from Medscape’s 2018 Ethics Report, in which 5,200 physicians were asked ethical questions related to patients...
