The Tennessee Justice Center in Nashville released a report detailing the impact the state's healthcare gap has on local communities, according to WKRN-TV-Nashville.
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The American Medical Students Association and Public Citizen, a watchdog group, are calling for an investigation into "unethical" clinical trials, which require first-year medical residents to work up to 28 hours or more at a time, according to MedPage Today.
The average medical school student graduated with a median debt of $180,000 in 2014, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges' "2014 Medical Student Education: Debt, Costs, and Loan Repayment Fact Card."
BayCare welcomed James P. Cote as senior vice president of ambulatory services.
Christopher S. Zarella, MD, joins the staff of The Waldorf Center for Plastic Surgery, located in Portland, Ore., according to a press release from SBWire.
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Here are 20 statistics on ambulatory surgery center staff hours per case based on the number of cases at the ASC, according to VMG's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2012.
Over 50 percent of nurses reported an increase in salaries in 2014 compared with 2013, according to the Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015.
Although healthcare is trending toward more transparent payment plans, patients as a whole are generally unaware of the actual costs associated with the entire surgical process.
U.S. public health funding will continue to decrease, based on a new study conducted by David Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, of the City University of New York of Public Health at Hunter College, according to Reuters.
Overlook Medical Center in Summit, N.J., has upgraded its radiosurgery system, according to NJBIZ.