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Physicians in Massachusetts, the best state to live in according to personal finance site WalletHub, make an average of $223,200 annually. 

Physicians in New Mexico, the worst state to live in according to personal finance website WalletHub, make an average of $270,060 annually. 

Bellingham, Wash.-based osteopathic physician and surgeon Gregory Sharp, DO, has had his license suspended after allegations of improper management of pain medication, KGMI reported Aug. 11. 

Daniel Castro, MD, will be sentenced in October for his role in a scheme to defraud benefit programs by performing medically unnecessary sinus surgeries, the Justice Department said Aug. 10. 

Burnout rates and depression rates have been high for nurse practitioners since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Medscape's 2023 "Nurse Practitioner Burnout and Depression" report. 

A resident physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, has been arrested following accusations that he hid a camera in the hospital's staff-only restroom to record staffers using the bathroom, according to an Aug. 3 report from nola.com.

Registered nurses are typically paid less than physician assistants and nurse practitioners, regardless of the state they practice in. 

The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 2222, antitrust legislation that requires advanced notification for "covered transactions" between healthcare facilities and provider entities, according to an Aug. 10 report from JDSupra.

Tenet Healthcare has appointed Roy Blunt, a former Republican senator from Missouri, to its board of directors effective immediately. The appointment expands Tenet's board from 11 to 12 directors. 

The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners permanently revoked the license of internist and hematologist Jashvant Amin, MD, who had sexual relations with a cognitively impaired patient who bore his child in 1986.