http://www.redorbit.com Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE:PDX), the nation’s leading provider of neonatal, maternal-fetal and pediatric subspecialty physician services, today announced the acquisition of a neonatal physician group practice that serves three hospitals in the San Francisco area. The seven neonatologists that form San Francisco Neonatology Medical Group care for premature and critically ill newborns at […]

http://www.e-dental.com iHealthSpot Inc., a Web development company for medical professionals, announces a partnership with iHealthSpot Inc., a private-practice healthcare marketing firm. Under the agreement, iHealthSpot will be the exclusive provider of Internet marketing and website services to Practice Builders’ client base. Practice Builders is a division of Ascend Media of Overland Park, Ks. and has […]

http://www.macon.com If you ever suffer life-threatening injuries in a car accident, a fall, a gunshot wound or a heart attack, you’d better hope you’re within 40 miles or so of a trauma center. If you are, you can get the quick and specialized help you need within the so-called “golden hour” where the majority of […]

By JACK D. WALKER http://www.rctimes.com Doctors are sued when mistakes are made. Hopefully, the medical profession will work to eliminate mistakes that former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., has called for. Would limiting malpractice suits have an effect to limit much-needed reform? How bad is medical malpractice? According to an article in the Journal […]

By Lee Romney, LA Times Staff Writer http://ktla.trb.com The young man told the emergency room doctor at Sutter Coast Hospital that he had come to await the end of the world under the big trees. He realized he needed help. But there are no psychiatric beds here, and not a single psychiatrist practices in Del […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine offers a unique and detailed view of race and discrimination in the health care workplace and the negative impact on job satisfaction, career advancement and minority physician retention. Published in the January 2 Annals of Internal Medicine, the study explored the role of race […]

Mark Moran http://pn.psychiatryonline.org Because of congressional action, payment for psychiatrists will drop on average by just 2 percent instead of 7 percent. Other specialties will still be experiencing greater cuts in payment even after the action by Congress. An 11th-hour intervention by Congress averted a scheduled 5 percent across-the-board reduction in reimbursement for physicians and […]

by Bend Weekly News Sources http://www.bendweekly.com/ Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine, located on Bend’s Westside, is a medical practice that puts many common complaints of doctors’ appointments to rest and improves the patient-doctor relationship. Many of the common reasons patients dislike visiting a doctor’s office are related to how they must spend their time waiting. At […]

http://medinnovationblog.blogspot.com by Richard L. Reece, MD A doctor reader recently responded to one of my blogs, where I spoke of medicine as a market-driven enterprise that must respond to consumers. I used the success of retail-clinics as one example. The reader commented, “Health care is not a traditional market because the consumer feedbacks can take […]