The percentage of older adults who had ever participated in a telehealth visit rose from 4% in May 2019 to 30% in June 2020, according to the ...Read More »
Tennessee-based Ballad Health dismissed Nathan Smith, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon who invited then-CEO of Bristol Regional Medical Center Greg...Read More »
Conducting an intervention with a practitioner who is impaired, disruptive, or performing poorly can be emotionally draining for even the most...Read More »
The CEO of Bristol (Tennessee) Regional Medical Center was asked to step down after health system officials learned he took part in a surgical...Read More »
The World Health Organization has recently defined burnout as an official medical diagnosis, explaining it as a syndrome that results “from...Read More »
A new study found that pay gaps between men and women are greater at physician practices that also have greater proportions of male physicians....Read More »
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) are state databases that track prescriptions for controlled substances. Both prescribers and pharmacists have access to PDMPs; in fact, pharmacists are required to enter filled prescriptions into PDMPs prior to dispensing, and in some states,...
