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Medical-level empathy? Yup, ChatGPT can fake that
Plus: Fishy sperm, an even more fishy sperm donor, and aviation-related sleep deserts.
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Two Canadian provinces lift licensing barriers for U.S. doctors
Canada may attract American physicians who find U.S. medicine to be fraught with ethical dilemmas and restrictions from insurance companies and...
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Obesity drugs overpriced, change needed to tackle issue
Millions of lives have been saved by treating infectious diseases at low cost in poor countries, and we need to repeat this success story with...
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New ABIM fees to stay listed as ‘board certified’ irk physicians
Responses to the policy on Twitter included accusations of extortion and denunciations of the ABIM’s “money grab policies.”
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Proposed Medicare bill would raise docs’ pay with inflation
The legislation is essential to enabling physician practices to better absorb payment distributions triggered by budget neutrality rules,...
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Surgeons, intensivists earn more than do colleagues from private insurance
On average, physicians in 18 specialties netted $1.9 million a year, according to a new AMN Healthcare report.
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Students, docs ponder U.S. News med school rankings after Harvard quits
“The stated idea of the rankings is to measure quality, but in reality, it’s to maintain a certain hierarchy.”
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CMS inpatient payment rule for 2024: Key takeaways
Many of the changes centered around improving health equity and quality as well as alleviating rural clinician shortages.
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AI predicts endometrial cancer recurrence
Model uses only digitized histopathology slides, but more validation in other populations is needed.
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Infographic: Is your compensation rising as fast as your peers?
Did doctors’ salaries continue their zesty postpandemic rise in 2022?
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Five chronic mistakes that can sabotage your medical practice
Although she says there are no hard and fast rules on how to run a thriving medical group, there are common mistakes that physicians often don’t...