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CMS has issued a new guidance stating that if a hospital is performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes the need to have a strict informed consent signed or they will lose fed med reimbursement. This includes both anesthetized and awake patients.
A new report shows that over 77% of physicians in this country are now employed by hospitals, health systems or corporate entities. The one with the most physician employees is Optum with over 90,000 physicians. The increase in physician employment has risen dramatically since the Covid epidemic. From 2002 to 2023 physician employment grew by just over 5%. Top
Dr. Ronald Daniels, an OB at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn was fired late last year after it was found that there were two patient deaths on the maternal floor in the prior year. The hospital also removed Dr. Dmitry Shelchkov, an anesthesioogist, after a botched epidural. He had been involved with some of the six earlier adverse outcomes. The hospital has attempted to make nice with the press over these and other incidents but they do not mention the large role played by midwives and nurses in the care of the OB patient in lieu of physicians.
Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a transplant surgeon at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, allegedly admitted to altering patient records in a government data base to not allow some patients to receive transplants. The hospital has now stopped their transplant program until this can be sorted out. Top
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