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Medicare Physician Fees to Rise 1.1 Percent in 2009

Starting Jan. 1, pathologists and others paid under the Medicare Part B physician fee schedule will get on average a 1.1 percent increase in payments for covered services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in a final rule released Oct. 30 and due to be published in the Nov. 19 Federal Register.

Educating Physician Trainees About Addiction

Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that education on addiction is inadequate during medical training, resulting in suboptimal medical care for those at risk. However, the research also found that a Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) program in addiction medicine is an effective "train the trainers" model for dissemination of addiction knowledge and skills to generalist physician trainees.

11/05/08 - Medicare Physician Fees to Rise 1.1 Percent in 2009

Congress authorized the fee hike through 2009. Had lawmakers not intervened, physician payments were due to be cut by 15.1 percent under the statutory update formula.

National Humanities Center's Conference Features World-Renowned Physician; Oliver Sacks, M.D., Sets the Tone for Discussions About What It Means to Be 'Human'

National Humanities Center's Conference Features World-Renowned Physician; Oliver Sacks, M.D., Sets the Tone for Discussions About What It Means to Be 'Human'

High Rates of Test Ordering, Reporting Errors in Physician Offices Highlight Role for Labs

In a recent study analyzing 590 event reports in physician offices (POLs), there were almost 1,000 testing errors, with almost 25 percent of these errors relating to reporting results to clinicians. Almost 13 percent of the 966 testing processing errors involved test ordering, while almost 18 percent were related to implementing the testing, including not performing the test at all, which was noted 6.7 percent in the study published in a recent issue of Quality and Safety in Health Care (2008;17;194-200).

Dr Death launches exhibition at O2

GERMAN physician and anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens launched his new exhibition at The O2 on Friday.

German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant

reporter writes "HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Until now, HIV has no cure and has led to the deaths of over 25 million people. However, a possible cure has appeared. Dr. Gero Hutter, a brilliant physician in Germany, replaced the bone marrow of an HIV patient with the bone marrow of a donor who has natural immunity to HIV. The new bone marrow in the patient then produced immune-system cells that are immune to HIV. Being unable to hijack any immune cell, the HIV has simply disappeared. The patient has been free of HIV for about 2 years. Some physicians at UCLA have developed a similar therapy and plan to commercialize it."

Bringing 'Der Vampyr' back to life

BOLOGNA: 'We will each write a ghost story," Lord Byron announced on a June evening in 1816. His companions at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, which included the poet Shelley, Shelley's future bride Mary Godwin (soon to write "Frankenstein") and Byron's physician and traveling companion, John Polidori, obliged. Polidori's effort was doubtless outclassed by the others, but he knew enough to develop later Byron's abandoned fragment into "The Vampire," a story published in 1819 under Byron's name.

Porn doctor jailed for 33 years

Dr Richard Carino, of New Port Richey, Florida, received the harsh sentence on Monday at a sentencing hearing following his July jury conviction on six counts of distributing images of child abuse. Images were found on PCs maintained by Carino at both his practice and home during police raids in July 2005. The disgraced physician was reportedly turned in by his wife.

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