"It's not just about doing the right thing for your patients ... It's about proving to someone else that you've done the right thing, and sometimes the proving takes longer than the doing."
Christine Sinsky, MD, discusses some of the causes of dissatisfaction...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
Some of you may recall that a few weeks ago I wrote about a proposal to ban handshakes in healthcare settings to reduce the spread of disease. I’ve recently heard of a...
A critical question in medicine will come before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall: How much power should physicians wield over their peers when the power to regulate also potentially could tamp down competition that benefits patients? The court has announced that on October 8, justices will...
A Pennsylvania woman was recently accused of identity theft and other charges after reportedly conducting physical examinations, including collecting urine samples, while using a Philadelphia psychiatrist’s medical license to pose as a physician. Joann Elizabeth Wingate, 56, allegedly...
Recently my local clinic announced it had joined the “family” of practices owned by a large area healthcare organization. This is a trend nationwide, as more clinics are purchased by hospitals. It begs some questions: How do these acquisitions affect MSPs? If your organization has acquired...
A new study disputes a common stereotype that women who become pregnant during surgical training often drop out of those training programs. Researchers led by Erin G. Brown, MD, of the University of California at Davis found that neither women nor men who had children born during their...
