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AAMC lauds GME reform bill Paul Barr | 5/18/12 - 12:30 pm Mass. looks to boost primary-care training Eagle Tribune (North Andover, Mass.) | 5/18/12 - 9:30 am SoutheastHealth names Means CMO Christine LaFave Grace | 5/18/12 - 11:15 am Doc: Drive for profit hurts healthcare Nashville Ledger | 5/18/12 - 9:30 am Medical boards' actions against docs up 6.8% in 2011 Andis Robeznieks | 5/17/12 - 1:00 pm AMA seeks reversal of FTC ruling Andis Robeznieks | 5/17/12 - 10:00 pm More docs ditch Rx pad in favor of e-scripts Associated Press via Washington Post | 5/17/12 - 9:30 am Primary-care docs less likely to spot cancer treatment side effects: study ABC News | 5/17/12 - 11:15 am Group asks for staggered start on ICD-10 Joseph Conn | 5/17/12 - 11:30 am Baptist of Nashville names Smallwood CMO Beth Kutscher | 5/17/12 - 10:45 am

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Public Citizen weighs in on doc-discipline stats

The Wyoming Board of Medicine is doing the best job at disciplining doctors and the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners is doing the worst, according to the Public Citizen Health Research Group ranking of medical boards in the 50 states and Washington, D.C....

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I'm Not a Doctor: Physician Affairs Blog

by Andis Robeznieks

The doctor is not dead and yada, yada, yada

Before Jerry Seinfeld started writing jokes and appearing on television, there were doctors and scientists named Seinfeld writing medical research...

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Weighing the options

Rich Daly | May 12, 2012
An overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system is again on Congress' agenda, but it remains unclear as ever whether the latest efforts will...
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Booster shot

Andis Robeznieks | May 12, 2012
The prospect of states receiving nearly a total of $12 billion for 2013 and 2014 to boost Medicaid payments to primary-care physicians has been...
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Video News Short: MGMA-ACMPE's Dr. Susan Turney talks ACOs, reform and reimbursement (3:13)

Modern Healthcare | May 12, 2012
Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE, sat down with Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief, to discuss the...
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Stalled progress

Joseph Conn | April 28, 2012
Adoption of electronic health-record systems remains higher among large physician groups and hospitals than among smaller ones, according to two...
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