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Primary Care / General Practice News From Medical News Today
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N.J. Files Paperwork To Suspend Medical License Of Doctor In Md. Abortion Case
On Wednesday, New Jersey officials filed legal documents seeking to suspend the medical license of an abortion provider involved in a procedure that critically injured an 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The physician, Steven Brigham, owns American Women's Services, which operates clinics in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia...
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Democrats, Republicans Take Health Reform, Midterm Battle To The Airwaves
The New York Times : The group "Revere America" is running a multi-million dollar television ad campaign aimed at defeating Democrats who voted for the health overhaul. "The ad campaign was announced by former Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, a Republican who is now serving as chairman of Revere America. At a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, Mr...
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Today's OpEds: Medicare's Long-Term Liabilities; Reforming And Funding Native Health Care; Frustrations Surrounding Stem Cell Research
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare The Wall Street Journal Under ObamaCare it will get much worse. Hospitals also will shut down or stop serving Medicare patients. ... Everyone should know by now that Medicare suffers dramatic long-term deficits and unfunded liabilities, and is in need of fundamental, structural reforms...
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Ohio Doctor Starts New Clinic With Lower Charges But Doesn't Accept Insurance
Middletown (Ohio) Journal: "Dr. James Brockman has taken on a new business model with his medical practice to maintain less overhead and avoid hassles with insurance companies and people who won't pay their bills. No insurance is accepted at his Affordable Health Care Center, which opened in April and offers visits starting at $45 and capped at $100 for more complicated cases. ...
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More Primary Care Services Does Not Guarantee A Better Health Care
A country's primary care needs is not just a question of numbers; increasing the amounts of primary care services or making patients routinely see a GP (general practitioner, primary care physician) does not necessarily guarantee that the patient will experience better outcomes, says a report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project...
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Program Cuts Red Tape For Volunteer Health Professionals
To make volunteering in an emergency easier for health professionals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response launched a national website for the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP)...
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Consumer Reports Rates Heart Bypass Surgical Groups
The New York Times: Consumer Reports will rate groups that perform heart bypass surgery. The group already rates many consumer items like cars and even household appliances. "In most parts of the country, data-based ratings of doctors are not available to patients. Only a few states, including New York, provide them...
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Md. Officials Rebuke Doctors For Treatment Of Woman Injured During Abortion Procedure
On Aug. 31, the Maryland Board of Physicians suspended the medical licenses of two physicians and barred another from practicing in the state for their roles in an abortion procedure that critically injured an 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant, the Baltimore Sun reports. The woman sustained a ruptured uterus and other internal injuries as a result of the Aug. 13 procedure...
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Defensive Medicine Costs Much Less Than 'Imagined' By Malpractice Reformists
The combined cost of malpractice -- and doctors' efforts to avoid it by practicing so-called defensive medicine -- costs about $55.6 billion a year, or 2.4 percent of total health spending, according to a new analysis by "Harvard University's Atul Gawande and co-authors, Bloomberg reports...
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Conservative Group Forecasts Medicare Doctor Access Problem
Writing for Kaiser Health News, Marilyn Werber Serafini reports in a KHN short take: "Getting a doctor's appointment may become increasingly difficult for seniors and the disabled over the next decade unless Congress changes the new health law, according to a report that the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis plans to release today...
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