Anyone who has worked in the medical field or spent time credentialing physicians has read, heard, or even seen, stories of incompetent doctors that risk the health and often the lives of patients. But the case of Christopher Duntsch may take the cake.
If you’re looking for a better way to track peer review cases, mark Tuesday, June 10 on your calendar. That’s the day of a free presentation of HCPro’s Peer Review Case Tracking Database, which will run from noon to 1:00 p.m. Eastern. The Peer Review Case Tracking Database enables MSPs to...
New Mexico state police are investigating how a man who was not licensed as an emergency medical technician (EMT) managed to treat dozens of patients, including at least one state lawmaker during a legislative session, a police spokesman said last week. The man, identified as David Allen...
Medtronic Inc. will pay the U.S. Department of Justice $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of funneling “millions of dollars in unrestricted grant money to physicians” to get them to encourage the use of Medtronic defibrillators and pacemakers in patients whose mild...
In the short term, hospitals may reap financial rewards by employing large numbers of physicians, wrote Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, in a recent post on the Atlantic website. Over the longer term, however, the vitality of both individual physicians and the entire profession of medicine...