Surgeons and surgical assistants have been capitalizing on the arbitration rule inside the No Surprise Act. The 2020 law is intended to protect patients from surprise billing by providers outside their insurance plan, and was meant to apply to emergency and unscheduled care.
Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.
"Have yourself a good life." That was my friend's message informing me of his plan to end his life through physician-assisted suicide. His pancreatic cancer had progressed and was no longer responding to treatments.
Total clinical compensation rose 4.3% in 2025, but about half of that growth is being funded by providers doing more work, not by gains in reimbursement, according to the 2026 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey.
A patient walks into the emergency department (ED) with a nagging migraine that won't let up. She knows that in the ED she'll be able to get a medication strong enough to provide relief.
In the emergency room, we operate in a high-stress environment with multiple inputs, similar to an airline pilot. There are multiple interfaces with the laboratory, radiology, and EKGs, all connected via the electronic medical record systems.
Like so many things on social media, patients invented the term before medicine did. They called it “food noise.”
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