Swedish Health of Seattle is challenging an arbitrator’s decision to award $17.5 million to a neurosurgeon fired last year. David Newell, MD, argued that his dismissal was in retaliation for reporting concerns about another top surgeon.
In dual-physician couples, women with children worked fewer hours than women without children but similar differences in hours worked were not seen among men. That’s according to a new ...
Every day in the news, you can’t help but hear about the terrible impact of overuse and addiction to opioids. As our country desperately searches for solutions, one of the questions being asked is how much patient satisfaction survey questions on pain management have affected physician...
"We have been mentored by most of our role models to use a single tool for handling our emotions in medicine, and that is to compartmentalize them—to put them in a box, and get the job done. No one bothered to mention … that there is no box big enough to practice medicine long term using just...
The combined system would focus on access and affordability, improving clinical care, growing its academic model and contributing to the region’s economy.
