by PPN | Dec 23, 2011 | News
Most U.S. doctors believe that healthcare reform will increase use of public health insurance programs but will not reduce costs, according to results from a survey of 500 physicians by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. A total of 85% of respondents said they...
by PPN | Dec 23, 2011 | New York, News
When President Barack Obama’s health care reform was making its way through Congress,Republicans and other opponents registered plenty of criticisms: It was too generous, too inflexible and too centralized. But such concerns were brushed aside in the push to get...
by PPN | Dec 23, 2011 | National, News
Within months of completing my training, I received the call that every doctor dreads. “You’ve been named in a malpractice lawsuit,” said the hospital administrator on the other end of the line. The family of a patient I had seen briefly a year...
by PPN | Dec 23, 2011 | News, Texas
Journal of the American College of Surgeons Study Reveals Malpractice Litigation Drives Profound Personal Implications, Including Depression and Low Career SatisfactionCHICAGO (November 14, 2011) – According to the results of a new study published in...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2011 | New Jersey, New York, News
Medical liability is a key reason physicians admit more emergency department patients and discharge them less, say two studies in the October Annals of Emergency Medicine. In one study, a survey of 849 emergency physicians and patients in two inner-city emergency...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2011 | Indiana, News
Indiana physicians continue to battle a legal challenge over the state's medical liability damages cap.Indiana Court of Appeals judges on Oct. 25 allowed a lawsuit against the cap to move forward, denying a request by Community Hospitals of Indiana to throw out...
