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Burnt Out Primary Care Docs Are Voting With Their Feet

Janis Finer, 57, a popular primary care physician in Tulsa, Okla., gave up her busy practice two years ago to care full time for hospitalized patients. The lure? Regular shifts, every other week off and a 10 percent increase in pay.


Types of Healthcare Systems

We generally see six to eight types of healthcare systems. There is some overlap, with some organizations falling into several types. 1. Elite Systems. These systems generally make U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals”...

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How Doctors Make Decisions For Their Patients.

By Garcia-Retamero, Galesic M.  From ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. In the past decade, the number of lawsuits for medical malpractice has risen significantly. This could affect the way doctors make decisions for their patients. To investigate whether and why… Read More



The Voices Of Patient Harm

Condensed from Propublica.  Patient safety is one of the most talked about topics in medicine today, but it’s rare to hear from patients who have been injured.  ProPublica  gathered more than 1,000 stories of patient… Read More


The U.S. Lags in Life Expectancy Gains

By Peter Coy – Businessweek.   Life  expectancy in the U.S. has been growing more slowly than in other developed countries and is now more than a year below the developed-country average, according to a… Read More



Hippocratic Oath

By Jim Klein for APRA. There is no direct punishment for breaking the Hippocratic oath in modern days. It can be said that malpractice is the same thing and it carries a wide range of… Read More


Problems in our Health Care System

By Jim Klein for APRA.   Hundreds of thousands of people are dying needlessly and millions more are being injured in hospitals every year due to a hidden epidemic of preventable medical errors and harm*  Hospitals earn more money by treating… Read More