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Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare is naming Raylene Platel, MD, as vice president of graduate medical education.

Atlanta-based eye care services network EyeSouth Partners has completed affiliations with Homewood, Ill.-based Arbor Centers for EyeCare and Chicago Eye Institute.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine is appointing Tom Takubo, DO, as executive vice president of provider relations.

The national average hourly pay for physician assistants is $55.81 per hour, according to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey. Wages and living costs vary from place to place, however.

Spike Lipschutz, MD, received a lifetime achievement award from Westfair Communications Doctors of Distinction, according to Sept. 26 reporting in the Greenwich Sentinel.

Fertility health network Boston IVF is welcoming Adrienne Neithardt, MD, to its team of Massachusetts physicians.

Harvinder Sandhu, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopedics at Stamford (Conn.) Hospital. 

Consumers have more information than ever before about the products they buy, but the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt the trend.

The University of Chicago Medicine is naming Blase Polite, MD, as chief physician at its upcoming multispecialty microhospital in Crown Point, Ind., according to Sept. 22 reporting from nwitimes.com.

Gastroenterology is the sixth wealthiest speciality, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2022.