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Northwell Health’s Jill Kalman, MD, and Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MSN, RN, lead with courage and purpose, breaking barriers, building trust, opening doors.
Physician burnout figures have dipped, but much work remains. The AMA offers a wealth of resources supporting professional satisfaction.
Reliance on emergency medical services in rural areas doesn’t just influence health care cost and access. It also affects the workforce.
These findings, included in a survey of more than 1,900 residents across 29 specialties, show how much off-the-job issues continue to press on physicians-in-training. According to the survey, the top ...
The brief tells the court that any physician assistance in an execution or the design of an execution would undermine the patient-physician relationship that relies on trust. Physicians risk confusing ...
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. For this installment, Lisa MacLean, ...
New Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ®) codes have been created that consolidate over 50 previous codes and greatly streamline the reporting of immunizations for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, ...
The RUC represents the entire medical profession, with 22 of its 32 members appointed by major national medical specialty societies. The members include those recognized by the American Board of ...
HIPAA’s Breach Notification Rule requires covered entities to notify patients when their unsecured protected heath information (PHI) is impermissibly used or disclosed—or “breached,”—in a way that ...
The AMA is working to address the organization’s past discriminatory and harmful practices and its role in creating inequities in health care and medicine.
Accurate measurement of BP—in the physician office and in patients’ homes—is essential for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. But which blood-pressure measurement devices have been ...
Learn how international medical graduates can enter a U.S. residency program, and the special requirements international medical graduates should consider.