Physicians, nurse midwives, registered nurses, and medical and nursing students significantly improved their ability to estimate obstetric blood loss after they were given pocket cardswith images of measured volumes on common materials including tail sponges, Chux pads, peri pads, bed pans, kidney basins, and delivery drapes, researchers report in an article published in April Obstetrics […]
Read MoreI think this is another good article for our readers. Physicians engaged in patient care generated $1.6 trillion in economic activity and supported 10 million jobs nationwide in 2012, according to a new report by the American Medical Association (AMA). The study found that physicians had a greater national economic impact than counterparts in higher […]
Read MoreI thought this was an interesting article I wanted to share with our readers. Changes in Healthcare Make an Impact Medicine is undergoing significant changes — some for the better and others less so. Compensation has increased slightly in 19 specialties; the income gap between men and women is narrowing; ACOs are making their impact […]
Read MoreSo much attention is paid to whether employees are “engaged” in their jobs or not. But managers at all levels need to periodically ask themselves a similar question: Are YOU engaged in managing your employees? In an effort to “empower” their staffs, too many managers take a completely hands-off approach, leaving employees alone unless they […]
Read MoreI thought this was an article our followers would like to read. That which walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, is not always actually a duck. That’s the argument the American Medical Association has been using for decades to block public access to doctors’ Medicare billing records. The AMA worries that people […]
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