EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series entitled Collision in Care about the shortage of primary care doctors in Santa Cruz County. Coming Saturday: Santa Cruz County’s inability to provide primary care to new Medicare patients is hard on everyone: Clinics and doctors, relatives and, especially, the elderly.
SANTA CRUZ — Eighty-three-year-old Gladys Man steered her cherry red electric scooter into the Planned Parenthood clinic in Read the rest of this entry »
Brownwood, Texas, doctor who pleaded guilty to sex assault allowed limited practice
07:48 PM CST on Saturday, December 20, 2008
A Brownwood, Texas, doctor who pleaded guilty in October to aggravated sexual assault of a child has been allowed to continue his practice – with restrictions – but state medical board officials could soon revoke that privilege.
Donald Delmer Pope, entered the plea in Tarrant County Read the rest of this entry »
“In Iraq, soldiers die for freedom, for honor, for their country and for their buddies,” Pryor wrote in an August 2007 article published in
. “Here in Philadelphia, they die without honor, without purpose, for no country, for no one.”
“More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq,” he wrote. “There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded Read the rest of this entry »
– Gaza’s main hospital, already full of Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, reached critical mass on Sunday, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.
“We’ve had a steady stream [of patients] every day, but the last 24 hours has [brought] about triple the number of cases,” Dr. Erik Fosse told CNN. “So this day has been extremely busy.”
Fosse said he estimated that about 30 percent of the casualties Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past decade, there has been significant cross-border consolidation, involving major pharmaceutical companies and promising biotech firms.
Whatever operating efficiencies that consolidation may have generated, none of it was passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices.
During the same period, there has been a steady decline in the number of important new drugs flowing from company research labs.
All of which ought to raise serious Read the rest of this entry »
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The state medical board has put an Orange County pediatrician on probation for choking his psychiatrist.
In an order that took effect Wednesday, the board ordered seven years probation for Dr. Brendan Mull, a pediatric neurologist at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Los Angeles. During that period, he must receive psychotherapy, submit to drug tests and abstain from drinking alchohol, along with several other provisions. Read the rest of this entry »
According to the Ontario Ministry of Health, Niagara is short 95 family doctors, including 20 in St. Catharines. Most years, the region manages to stay even, replacing doctors that retire or leave Niagara, but not usually ending up with a net gain of family doctors.
The problem is compounded by the fact many family doctors already have a large number of patients and are not taking new ones. As a result, many people are without a regular doctor. Read the rest of this entry »
President-elect Barack Obama has promised to expand health insurance coverage for everybody. But fulfilling this promise will require enough doctors on the firing line – internists, family doctors, pediatricians, gerontologists and others – to treat the additional people covered. Primary care is a part of the total healthcare system, and the Obama administration must craft a national health manpower policy to provide resources and reverse primary Read the rest of this entry »
Managed care plans do little to rein in costs, Dallas doctor’s study says
10:53 AM CST on Saturday, January 31, 2009
jroberson@dallasnews.com
New research by a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician calls into question whether health insurers are adequately performing one of their main functions: containing costs.
Dr. Ethan Halm, chief of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, found that private managed-care plans for Read the rest of this entry »
Fifteen days before the election, serious gaps remain in the public’s knowledge about the health of the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. The limited information provided by the candidates is a striking departure from recent campaigns, in which many candidates and their doctors were more forthcoming.
In past elections, the decisions of some candidates for the nation’s top elected offices to withhold health information turned Read the rest of this entry »