Practice Management News

Given the substantial investment to become a practicing physician, it should not be surprising that the most significant asset of most physicians is their ability to practice their profession.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that members of the Sackler family cannot be protected from future lawsuits for their roles in the opioid epidemic.

On Thursday, June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court formally dismissed an appeal over Idaho’s current strict abortion ban, allowing for abortions to be performed in the state in emergency situations.

The Dobbs decision was associated with declines in prescriptions for oral contraceptive pills, especially for emergency contraception, in states with the most restrictive abortion laws, according to cohort study results.

Because the science underpinning medicine evolves so quickly, it is not uncommon for some doctors to manage patients based on old evidence that is no longer a best practice; this is called clinical inertia.

SAN FRANCISCO — AI has evolved rapidly in the past few years, and with this comes generative AI, which creates content based on short prompts and plentiful data that might be useful in health care while also posing some trade-offs.

There was a nearly 13% increase infant deaths in Texas after the state implemented a ban on abortion in early pregnancy in 2021, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Obtaining medication abortion after no-test telehealth screening and mail-order medication dispensing was tied to similar abortion completion rates as in-person care with ultrasonography, according to study results published in JAMA.

Women with chronic pelvic pain have more ED visits, imaging tests and hysterectomies and higher rates of overlapping chronic pain conditions vs. women without chronic pelvic pain, according to findings published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The concept of delayed gratification has been ingrained in us throughout medical school and residency. This mentality can sometimes lead to explosive spending as an attending when one enjoys a significant salary boost.