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Health Care Bill Progress; House Signs Their Version of Health Care Reform Bill November 7

Posted on: Monday, November 9, 2009

On November 7, with a number of amendments from its original form, the health care reform bill was passed with a slim margin of victory. While it is an important step, a number of steps remain before the bill is signed into law. The amended form of the health care bill includes concessions to pro-life [...]

Tags: american healthcare system, health care, health news, healthcare professionals, healthcare systems

Obama’s Health Care Plan to Penalize Specialists

Posted on: Friday, October 16, 2009

Specialists are quietly under fire in the new proposed health care bill. In it, the most highly paid doctors are asked to take a 5% pay cut, which is even more formidable than it sounds since Medicare dollars are worth 83 cents on the private dollar. When these figures are collated, it amounts to a [...]

Tags: american healthcare system, health care professionals, healthcare, healthcare jobs, healthcare professionals, healthcare reform

Cuts in Resident Hours Lead to Higher Costs

Posted on: Monday, June 15, 2009

In 2008, residency programs were changed to limit residency hours so that residents wouldn’t be made to work shifts that are longer than 16 hours without sleep, and various other changes designed to maintain the health and quality of life of medical residents. However, according to a new study just put out by the New [...]

Tags: healthcare professionals, physician recruitment

Hospital Ratings and How They Work

Posted on: Monday, June 1, 2009

Quality ratings for hospitals come in two flavors – professional and public. As can be expected, the professional quality ratings are the ones that can be trusted, but they are not as easy to access as the public rating systems. Public rating systems can be skewed towards a positive outcome by advertising, or skewed towards [...]

Tags: healthcare, healthcare jobs, healthcare professionals, healthcare systems, hospital ratings

Staying Positive on a Physician Job Search

Posted on: Tuesday, March 3, 2009

There are a lot of things conspiring against you when you are looking for a job in a bad economy. The trick is to stay positive and upbeat. Potential employers will pick up on this and will probably choose you over other candidates if you can manage to manifest such an attitude in [...]

Tags: healthcare professionals, medical employment, physician jobs

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