Author: Paige Haeffele

Hawaii is the worst state to practice medicine, according to personal finance site WalletHub.

The average resident's pay increases by $13,000 after six years of training, according to data from Medscape. 

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., holds the top rank in the world for hospitals in eight out of 12 specialties, according to rankings released by Newsweek. 

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was named the "smartest" hospital in the world by Newsweek. 

Here are three groups of medical professionals that have announced plans to or held strikes, as reported by Becker's since Sept. 7: 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is the largest health system in the U.S. by number of hospitals as well as net patient revenue, according to data from Definitive Healthcare, a healthcare analytics firm. 

As the pandemic-related slowdown in health system financial moves eases, hospital joint venture deals are expected to climb in the coming months.

Indianapolis-based Elevance Health, formerly ​​Anthem, secured the No. 1 spot of Fortune and Great Place to Work's "40 Best Large Workplaces in Health Care." 

Mark Van Ess, DO, chair of head and neck surgery at Mercy Clinic Springfield (Mo.), ​​recently joined Becker's to discuss the relationship between physicians and the hospitals they work for. 

Amid growing discontent among physicians on noncompete agreements, which prohibit clinicians from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular distance from their previous practice for a certain period of time, many states have amended their…