Business of Medicine

• COVID Takes a Toll on Neurologists' Happiness, Well-Being With the ongoing pandemic, more neurologists report being unhappy outside of work and suffering burnout and/or depression in Medscape's latest survey of happiness, wellness, and lifestyles.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Psychiatrists' Happiness, Well-Being Hit Hard by COVID-19 More psychiatrists are unhappy outside of work and report burnout and/or depression in Medscape's latest survey of happiness, wellness, and lifestyles.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• How Do You Run a Hospital With No Running Water? With grit and ingenuity, Texas medical centers find. '2020 taught us to be agile as things change and to align our goals across different medical teams,' one physician said.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• 'Living Brain Implants' May Restore Stroke Mobility A conversation with Dr Mijail Serruya, the principal investigator behind an enticing proof-of-concept study that offers a possible technological solution to improve poststroke mobility.
  Medscape Neurology, February 22, 2021
• 1 in 10 Family Docs With Burnout Consider Quitting Medicine Happiness levels outside work have dropped sharply during the pandemic, a new Medscape survey finds.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Stem Cell Fraud Case Sparks Concern Over Unmatched Docs' Role A recently elected Missouri state representative and assistant physician faces federal fraud charges after patients were duped into thinking they were receiving stem cell treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Healthcare Stakeholders Agree on Universal Coverage Plan The AMA and hospital, insurer, and employer associations are all on board; ironically, the free-market solution relies on federal government actions and funding.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• COVID Cuts Internists' Happiness in Life Outside Work Last year 78% of internists said they were somewhat or very happy; this year, it plummeted to 55%, according to a new Medscape survey. Exercise was the top coping mechanism.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• How to Negotiate Your Nurse Practitioner Contract Know the pitfalls before you sign on the dotted line.
  Medscape Nurses, February 19, 2021
• 10 Last-Minute Tax Moves to Reduce Your Financial Hit on April 15 There's still time to make some tax moves that could help reduce the amount you'll have to pay in April.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 18, 2021
• EHR Vendors Tweak Software to Support Mass Vaccination Efforts The specialty software is used for outreach, screening, scheduling, vaccination status, decision support, and reporting to public health authorities.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2021
• COVID-19 Has Wiped Out Cancer Research Fundraising   'The impact on fundamental translational clinical research will be enormous and will echo forward for many years,' Dr Kerr laments.
  Medscape Oncology, February 17, 2021
• How Do You Deal With Anti-Mask Patients? Many public health organizations recommend that people wear masks in public settings to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, one study found that as of September 2020, only 49% of Americans wore masks in public.
  Medscape Reader Polls, February 17, 2021
• Nurse Pinned in Fatal Texas Pileup Climbs Out, Goes to Work Rebecca Benson felt her tires lose their grip on the black ice on the bridge and saw the wall of crashed vehicles in front of her.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Volunteer Vaccinators Run Into Hurdles Many healthcare workers who try to volunteer as vaccinators run into an ad hoc system just as chaotic as the rollout of the vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Dialysis Patients Should Be Moved Up Vaccine Priority List Patients on dialysis are on par with long-term care residents in terms of risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death, and should therefore be highest priority for vaccination, say nephrologists.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Docs Earn Millions for Sketchy Referrals; Now What? As government scrutiny of hospital-physician transactions has heightened in recent years, more instances of improper payments have come to light.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Radiology Gets a Smaller Slice of the MPFS Pie The 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule prescribes an estimated 11% reduction to radiology payments. Why and how did this come about?
  Applied Radiology, February 16, 2021
• Care by Locum Tenens Hospitalists Compares Well Care by locum tenens hospitalists, often thought to be an expensive solution to staffing shortages, may have advantages in patient outcomes and hospital costs, a new observational study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 12, 2021
• Money, Influence Allow Early Access to COVID-19 Vaccines   Dr Art Caplan discusses the issues with people using their money and status to receive COVID-19 vaccines early.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 12, 2021