Tag Archives: Physicians

The Dobbs effect today: Abortion ballot initiatives, expected higher mortality, more litigation

In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are “children,” temporarily throwing fertility treatments, such as IVF, into uncertainty and igniting a national debate. […]
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Microaggression madness in Oregon could cost doctors their license

Let’s look at an alarming idea taking shape in Oregon: Doctors will be turned into snitches before they give stitches. There is a controversy in Oregon over a proposed change in the ethics rule from the Oregon Medical Board. At issue is the use of “microaggressions” to discipline doctors and to make reporting such transgressions mandatory for […]
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How the Dobbs decision has affected medical students and residency programs in Oregon, US – OPB’s Think Out Loud

It’s been two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. Since then, 14 states have instituted full bans on the procedure. Now new research shows that states with these bans are seeing less residency applications from medical students. Katie Hansen […]
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Funding instability plagues program that brings docs to underserved areas

A federal program training primary care doctors in outpatient clinics rather than hospitals is scheduled to run out of funds in December. For Diana Perez, a medical resident at the Family Health Center of Harlem, the handwritten thank-you note she received from a patient is all the evidence she needs that she has chosen the […]
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Like Doctors, More Nurse Practitioners Are Heading Into Specialty Care

If your doctor can’t see you now, maybe the nurse practitioner can. Nurse practitioners have long been a reliable backstop for the primary-care-physician shortfall, which is estimated at nearly 21,000 doctors this year and projected to get worse. But easy access to NPs could be tested in coming years. Even though nearly 90 percent of nurse practitioners are certified […]
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White House enlists doctors and hospitals to combat gun violence

The Biden administration wants state and local health officials and hospitals to boost timely data collection on emergency room visits for firearm-related injuries. The White House is calling on hospital executives, doctors, and other health care leaders to take bolder steps to prevent gun violence by gathering more data about gunshot injuries and routinely counseling […]
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Tigard men’s clinic hit with whistleblower claim

Suit alleges that forged prescriptions, unlawful practices may have endangered patients while workplace conditions suffered. A naturopathic physician is suing a men’s clinic in Tigard while alleging that a manager there “forged” prescriptions and provided unlawful medical advice. In a lawsuit filed on May 31 in Washington County Circuit Court,  Matthew J. Brown has alleged […]
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Woman physician sees continued issues with treatment of women in medicine

There’s a reason “hysteria” and “hysterectomy” sound so much alike: scientists used to think that agitated women would settle down if their troubled and troubling uteruses were removed. We’ve come a long way since then… …haven’t we? Maybe not, as Dr. Elizabeth Comen reports in her book All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies […]
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Short-Staffed Women’s Prison Fires Its Only Gynecologist

“Currently there is not an OB/GYN provider on site.” Coffee Creek Correctional Facility no longer has an on-site gynecologist after firing Dr. Linda Widing on April 29, WW has learned. “Patients needing OB care are taken to a provider outside of the facility,” spokeswoman Amber Campbell said in a statement. “Currently there is not an […]
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US pediatricians reverse decades-old advice against HIV-positive mothers breastfeeding

A top U.S. pediatricians’ group is making a sharp policy change about breastfeeding by people with HIV. People with HIV can breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS, a top U.S. pediatricians’ group said Monday in a sharp policy change. The new report from […]
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