In the past few years there has been a clear transition within the healthcare landscape. Regulatory and accreditation organizations are placing much more focus on quality and patient safety. The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable...
For many physicians, their first experience with the state medical board is filling out paperwork, popping it in the mail, and waiting patiently for their licenses to be delivered in return. If a physician has a second experience with the medical board, it is usually for a...
A white paper from the AHA's Physician Leadership Forum identifies communication and systems-based practice as the two weakest core competencies for physicians. Surprise? Not really.
In the past few years there has been a clear transition within the healthcare landscape. Regulatory and accreditation organizations are placing much more focus on quality and patient safety. The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable...
A Louisiana Court of Appeals affirmed and amended a trial court's decision that an Alexandria, La., hospital failed to comply with its own bylaws in suspending a cardiovascular surgeon and performed its peer review process with malice.
In July it was revealed that two New Mexico surgeons were involved in nearly 80 malpractice lawsuits after performing back surgeries that only one of the surgeons was qualified to perform.
