News: Medical Malpractice Insurance and Physician Practices

http://www.marketwatch.com
PASADENA, Calif., Nov 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kaiser Permanente received the most stars in the just released HMO Quality Report from the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA). Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region and Northern California [...]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/
U.S. doctors seem to be fed up. Within the next three years, a new survey shows, almost half are considering cutting back on patients or simply halting their practice. Already, more than three-quarters say, there’s a shortage of primary care doctors.
The responses from 12,000 U.S. physicians indicate they’re spending more time on paperwork, which is  [...]

By Molly Henneberg
http://www.foxnews.com

WASHINGTON —  In 2011, the first of the 78 million baby boomers will turn 65. But only one out of every 100 doctors is a certified geriatrician specializing in treating the elderly. And that is a growing concern for those in medicine.
“The actual number of certified geriatricians is currently going down each year, not [...]

http://www.thathappened.net
New York – As an inevitable consequence of the continuing failure of health care providers worldwide, licensed physicians with years of experience are calling it quits. Though there are many areas of discussion as to the reason, it likely comes down to one: HMOs. HMO mandates saturate medical practice with interference. Physicians feel they are [...]

By Kay Lazar
http://www.boston.com
As a phalanx of sign-carrying mothers rallied outside, their babies bundled against the earlymorning cold, Beverly Hospital trustees yesterday backed down from a plan to cease deliveries at the hospital’s natural birthing center, one of only two such facilities in the state.
In a four-sentence [...]

By Claire Cain Miller
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com
American Well aims to reinvent the house call.
If Roy Schoenberg, the start-up’s co-founder and chief executive, has his way, patients will no longer have to wait a month to see a doctor for an urgent sore throat, wait all day for a doctor to return their call or leave work midday and [...]

BY CHRIS RIZO
http://www.legalnewsline.com
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) – If the Illinois Supreme Court decides to strike down limits on medical malpractice awards it could mean fewer doctors practicing in the state, sources told Legal Newsline Tuesday.
The state’s high court is examining the constitutionality of caps lawmakers placed on lawsuit awards. In 2005, state legislators passed a [...]

By Val Willingham
http://www.cnn.com
(CNN) — Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative
The survey, released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find [...]