2024 has become a more legally treacherous year for physicians and it's affecting the way they practice medicine.
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President Joe Biden recently commuted the prison sentence of Shelinder Aggarwal, who was allegedly the most prolific Medicare prescriber of opioids in the U.S., WAFF reported Dec. 17.
Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents at George Washington University Hospital in Washington have reached a tentative labor deal, averting a strike.
Physician autonomy is a central concern for physicians and physician leaders heading into 2025, as just 44% of physicians owned their own practice in 2022, compared with 76% in the early 1980s, according to the American Medical Association.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a physician in New York for prescribing abortion medication to a Texas resident through telemedicine services.
The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston has broken ground on a new medical school building, Live 5 News reported Dec. 13.
Here are three union updates since Nov. 22, as reported by Becker's:
The most important thing for female physicians in the workplace is a commitment to work-life balance for physicians and staff, according to Medscape's 2024 "Fighting Glass Ceilings: Medscape Female Physician Career Tracks Report," published Dec. 11.
Massachusetts' Physician Pathway Act will soon allow foreign-trained physicians to practice medicine in the state to address the ongoing physician shortage, Metro West Daily News reported Dec. 11.
Raj Mitra, MD, has been tapped to serve as the new dean of the Dayton, Ohio-based Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and the chief academic officer at Premier Health, also based in Dayton, WYSO reported Dec. 10.