Physician Advocacy

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Surgeon and author advocates for independent practice and pinpoints problems with prior authorizations.

Medical school enrollment has grown significantly over the past two decades, yet residency capacity has not kept pace, due in large part to longstanding caps on Medicare-supported GME positions. The result is a bottleneck that limits how many physicians can enter practice each year and where they end up practicing.

Atlanta internist and former ACP president Sandra A. Fryhofer, M.D. elected president-elect

Because ‘corporate intrusion threatens patient-centered care’ as national concerns grow about private equity ownership.

U.S. Women’s Health Alliance pitches policy solution that would enhance patient choice by sustaining independent practice.

The world is shifting. Now is the time to trust and enhance physician leadership — and here's how to do it

One in five privately insured adults denied coverage for doctor-recommended care, survey finds

American Hospital Association asks for collaboration to implement a new policy guide addressing major issues across U.S. health care and medicine.

Clubfoot is treatable, yet too many children still go without care. Family physicians and pediatricians have a critical role in closing this gap.

While artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into clinical work and diagnostics, physician oversight and legislative engagement are critical to protecting the patient-physician relationship.

A new JAMA proposal would treat primary care as a public utility, pooling the dollars payers already spend on it into a single state fund that pays practices directly, with no new spending needed to start.

A policy expert explains what physicians need to know when patients ask about the changing prices of their medicines.

The Commonwealth Fund examines health care across developed nations and finds dismal results for the United States.

But some of the state’s top physicians and clinicians say they were blindsided by the pilot program.

Policies are needed now to rein in private equity investments and protect physicians and patients.

To maximize savings in value-based care, CMS should create payment models for physicians, not middlemen.

Physicians Foundation president discusses CMS request for information about physician-owned hospitals.

The doctor is still in, and needs to consider what artificial intelligence can and can’t do in the clinic

A pediatric emergency physician explains how she took her fight against preventable child injuries, unsafe sleep and online predators from the emergency room to social media.

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Patients and policy makers should know a key part of the U.S. health care system is crumbling

Physicians Advocacy Institute study finds just 18% of doctors work in physician-owned practices.

AMA survey finds prior authorizations are killing physician trust in insurers, along with patient care.

Posthumous advice on medicine and life from the world’s oldest doctor.