Author: Patsy Newitt

If physician burnout is not addressed, more physicians will continue to leave practice before retirement age, exacerbating the impending physician shortage, the American Medical Association said in a Sept. 27 blog post. 

Microhospital Avail Hospital Lake Charles (La.) is permanently closing Sept. 29.

Here are three major companies that have filed for bankruptcy or announced intentions to file for bankruptcy since Aug. 28;

Lawrence Kaplan, MD, associate dean at the Philadelphia-based Lewis Katz School of Medicine, joined Becker's to discuss whether he would choose employment or private practice if he was just beginning his career. 

Joshua Glauser, DO, a physician at Baptist Health Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, must pay $20 million to the family of a patient who died while being treated for acute pancreatitis, Palm Beach Post reported Sept. 14. 

Pascal Girault, 21, of Stoughton, Mass., has been indicted on charges of impersonating a physician to illegally obtain prescription drugs and then sell them. 

Medscape surveyed 1,000 residents on their earnings in its 2023 "Resident and Salary Debt Report."

Proposed Medicare cuts for physicians are "bad policy, bad timing and bad for patients," threatening healthcare access, the American Medical Association said in a Sept. 11 news release. 

An amicus brief filed Sept. 6 by the California Medical Association and the American Medical Association states that licensed allopathic and osteopathic physicians in California should be the only practitioners allowed to use the title "Dr."

Denis Tkachuk, who previously worked at hospitals in Washington state, was sentenced to three years of probation for stealing and selling more than $108,000 in medical supplies.