Physicians on RVU-based compensation plans often have no way of knowing whether the rate they are being paid is fair, and according to one gastroenterologist, that is often by design.
Nearly 6 in 10 physicians recently surveyed said they’d be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for better work-life balance — a finding that may say as much about the state of medicine as any burnout statistic.
As health officials track cyclosporiasis cases in multiple states, experts note that there are plenty of other parasites that people can contract from food. These fall into two main categories: protozoa -- like Cyclospora, the one causing "explosive diarrhea" right now -- and worms.
Joining a health system through acquisition can bring real benefits to a physician practice, including operational support, better access to capital, stronger payer contracting leverage and long-term stability.
Childhood trauma can leave lasting marks on human development, and a new study links these early adverse experiences to higher rates of procrastination in young adults. By scanning the brains of over a thousand participants, researchers mapped how trauma-related changes in neural networks might elevate anxiety and lower self-control, paving the way for chronic delay.
In a world first, scientists led by a team from Stanford University have created 16 viable viruses that do not exist in nature and were designed by AI. Their experiment, could help in the fight against superbugs by allowing researchers to design customized viruses to kill drug-resistant bacteria. Thomas Inglesby and Moritz S.
Severe COVID-19 may reactivate some dormant viruses that remain in the body after prior infections, a new study suggests. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and collaborators from more than 20 biomedical research hospitals across the U.S. and in Ontario, Canada, followed 1,154 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and analyzed more than 200,000 biological samples collected over one year.
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