A new accusation filed by the Medical Board of California, claims that Jason Lane, MD, arrived to work at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Diego with a blood alcohol content of 0.39 percent, which was nearly five times the legal driving limit.
A surgeon with an alleged history of bad behavior must pay a nurse $5,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 for punitive damages after kicking her and leaving a bruise, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a previous decision that ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried...
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
Is your organization looking for family medicine practitioners or internal medicine physicians? Wondering why the search is taking so long? Merritt Hawkins’ “2014 Review Of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” spots some interesting trends that might already be...
The growing physician assistant (PA) field has led some medical schools to expand their PA programs in order to offset the looming physician shortage. Northern Arizona University will use a recent $1.5 million grant to expand teaching space for its PA program. Meanwhile, Lynchburg College in...
What are regulators really looking for from your medical staff services department? When CMS seems to want one thing and accreditors want something else, you need to cut through the confusion. Tune in to HCPro’s new webcast “Verify and Comply: Meet Your Top Credentialing Challenges,” on...
