Category: Doctors
Did Your Doctor ‘Ghost’ You? An Employment Contract May Be To Blame
Noncompete clauses aim to stop physicians from taking patients with them if they move to a competing practice nearby.
Depression in First-Year Doctors Depends on Where They Train
Rates were highest in programs whose trainees reported the longest hours, the least helpful faculty feedback, and the least valuable inpatient training programs.
World-famous cancer center’s season of turmoil
Cancer centers grapple with conflict of interests among their leadership, researchers and physicians.
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Financial Ties to Corporations
One of the world’s top breast cancer doctors failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug and health care companies in recent years.
Tuition-Free Med School Touches Off Multimillion-Dollar Debate
New York University’s School of Medicine is learning that no good deed goes unpunished.
The Man Who Sold America On Vitamin D — And Profited In The Process
The doctor most responsible for turning the sunshine supplement into a billion-dollar juggernaut has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the vitamin D industry, according to government records and interviews.
Doctors Reckon With High Rate Of Suicide In Their Ranks
An estimated 300 to 400 doctors kill themselves each year, and the suicide rate is more than double that of the general population.
Doctors concerned Medicare pay-for-performance incentives could harm patient care, survey
60 percent of doctors polled said physicians might “avoid sicker or more medically complex patients to improve performance on quality or utilization measures.”