Picking the Best Place to Practice Medicine
When choosing where to set up a practice, physicians must consider much more than average malpractice insurance rates and Geographic Practice Cost Indices (GPCI). Every year, several lists are published picking the top states in which to practice medicine. Malpractice insurance premiums vary significantly between states. What is best for one clinician might not be […]
Fewer Than Half of Physicians Work in Private Practice
HealthDay News — Less than half of physicians now work in private practice, according to a report released by the American Medical Association (AMA). As part of the AMA Policy Research Perspective series, Carol K. Kane, Ph.D., used data collected from 3,500 U.S. physicians participating in the 2020 Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. The analysis shows […]
Do Physician Rating and Ranking Sites Work?
In healthcare, the choices patients make can have immediate and direct consequences on their care. Nowhere is this more evident than in a patient’s choice of physician, where the outcome of choice is an involved and potentially long-lived relationship with a fiduciary. Though patients are often connected with new physicians via referrals, the landscape of […]
Predictive value of ‘good’ cholesterol level varies by race, US study finds
In contradiction to what has generally been assumed, low HDL levels did not confer any higher risk of heart disease in Black people, researchers said. Among white people, however, those with HDL levels below 40 milligrams per deciliter had a 22% higher risk for coronary heart disease compared with those whose HDL levels were higher. […]