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Tenet Healthcare appointed Howard Hacker as senior vice president and CCO.

Kiper C. Nelson, MD, of Southern Eye Center in Hattiesburg, Miss., along with his wife, Laura Lee Nelson, granted a $1 million donation to Wake Forest Eye Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.

A coalition of more than 100 medical groups is asking Congress to fund research on gun violence at the CDC, according to The Guardian.

Stephen Prendiville, MD, owner of Surgical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., received a RealSelf 100 Award for 2015 from RealSelf, an online community that helps people make choices in elective cosmetic procedures, according to a Naples Daily News report.

"Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2016" found most physicians spend between 13 minutes and 16 minutes with each patient.

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The North Central region of the United States offers, on average, the highest pay for physicians per year, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2016.

Mobile phones may not be secure enough to contain confidential medical information, based on a new Skycur's Mobile Threat Intelligence report, according to betanews. About 28 percent of physicians who use mobile devices in their practices input patient data into…

In its 2016 report, the Association of American Medical Colleges found our nation will face a shortage of between 61,700 physicians and 94,700 physicians by 2025.