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Five Ways Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Impacts Your Doctor

MedPage Today – After President Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill" into law on July 4, the question remained: How would it impact doctors? Here are the top ways physicians will be impacted by the law. Swamped Emergency Departments Between a decrease in the Medicaid rolls -- largely due to the law's imposition of a federal work requirement -- and the expected expiration of the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits, an estimated 17 million...

State blasts Orange County Global for troubling practices that endangered patients

The failures ‘represent a systemic collapse in patient safety,’ said one national patient safety expert. Owners cite financial pressures in the health care field

‘I feel like I’ve been lied to’: When a measles outbreak hits home

About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people with measles will be hospitalized.

Study offers advice to docs when they get weird requests

Sudbury.com – More and more doctors are being faced with patients who are requesting medical tests or treatments that physicians might deem inappropriate. The issue, outlined in a recent edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) examines how patients bring issues and concerns to their physicians and how those physicians respond, said the report. The article said clinicians discuss tests, referrals, and treatments with patients and caregivers every day. The study looked at...

The U.S.’s hospital bed shortage is in danger of reaching a ‘critical threshold’

There is a shortage of beds in hospitals across the United States. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with doctor Arjun Venkatesh of Yale School about it.

There could be a new definition for obesity. A doctor explains why this matters

CNN – For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define adult obesity as a BMI of 30 or greater and overweight as a BMI between 25 and 29.9. Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of...

So Many Days Lost at the Doctor’s Office

"The understanding that medical care can become a wearying treadmill for older patients has led researchers to look more closely at the consequences of so-called burdens of treatment."

Clinicians’ phones a cybersecurity risk, says study

La Trobe University – A new study led by Dr. Tafheem Wani, a La Trobe lecturer in Digital Health Information Management, showed that clinicians' phones (and other digital devices) contained sensitive patient information, which was not often protected by antivirus software and passcodes. Dr. Wani said the use of personal devices for work purposes, known as "bring your own device" (BYOD), had significantly increased in hospitals because clinicians needed efficiency and mobility while at work. "Some...

Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed as Surgery

KFF HEALTH NEWS – When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it between the front door and the car,” Lai later recalled, and the child wasn’t complaining. The doctor grabbed a pair of forceps — aka tweezers — and pulled out the splinter in “a second,” Lai said. That brief tug...

What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger

The killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest health insurer, has reignited people’s contempt for their health plans.

How Corporate America Kicked Nuns Out Of Hospitals

ST. LOUIS — Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Nuns founded and led those hospitals in a mission to treat sick and poor people, but some were also shrewd business leaders. Sister Irene Kraus, a former chief executive of Daughters of Charity National Health System, was famous for coining the phrase “no margin,...

One in 14 American Patients May Be Harmed by Hospital Diagnosis Mistakes

US Population: 345,992,498 Percent of persons with overnight hospital stays: 7.9%. Projected number of persons with overnight hospital stays: 27,333,407 Projected number of persons harmed by hospital diagnosis mistakes: 1,952,386 NEWSWEEK – Harmful diagnostic errors may occur for as many as one in every 14 hospital patients receiving medical care, a new study based on a single medical center in the U.S. has found. As many as 85 percent of these errors may...

Horrifying’ mistake to harvest organs from a living person averted, witnesses say

TJ Hoover was declared dead and on the brink of having his organs removed to be transplanted into other people. The surgery was halted in the operating room.

Nearly half of doctors are sexually harassed by patients. Why is it so hard to protect them?

EURO NEWS – Many doctors and health workers are sexually harassed by patients, but they often don’t report the incidents or know how to protect themselves. Workplace aggression is a well-known problem in health care, with doctors, nurses, and other medical staff frequently facing violence and verbal abuse from their patients. But a specific form of abuse often flies under the radar: just how many health workers are subjected to sexual harassment, which can range from...

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