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Author: Dr. Liji Thomas, MD It was widely accepted that putting the newborn baby on the mother’s chest promotes skin-to-skin contact and bonding between the two who share the common experience of birth, and enhances the chances of successful breastfeeding, after a Cesarean section. However, from the viewpoint of anesthesiologists, who oversee the critical part […]
Read MoreBy Daniel Low MD Fifty million Americans have surgery each year. Approximately 2 million of these surgical patients will develop persistent opioid use (meaning they continue to use opioids 90–180 days after surgery). For far too many people, surgery is a critical gateway to the tragedy of opioid addiction. As a practicing anesthesiologist, I’ve been administering opioids for […]
Read MoreAuthor: Morgan Haefner Becker’s Hospital CFO Report If four out-of-network specialty providers — anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists and assistant surgeons — could no longer balance bill patients for care provided at in-network hospitals, about $40 billion in savings would be realized each year, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers from Yale University […]
Read MoreWe already knew this but I wanted to share. Author: Morgan Haefner Becker’s Hospital Review The U.S. has the most expensive medicines in the globe, costing 306.82 percent more than the global median, according to an analysis by Medbelle, a digital healthcare company based in London. For its analysis, the firm compared how much 13 medications […]
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