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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. 

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

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." 

Here is a snapshot of the nursing industry in five notes: