Now that the health insurance marketplace is open, many are wondering about the immediate effects the Affordable Care Act will have on the healthcare industry. For example, will medical degrees lose their luster? Will the financial uncertainty and politicizing of the profession discourage students from pursuing a medical degree? Will there be enough healthcare professionals to care for a growing population?
Dr. Peter Lin Earns Board CertificationDr. Peter Lin, a plastic surgeon at The Jackson Clinic, is now board certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery.Dr. Lin completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA. He received his Doctor of Medicine ...
Chief Operating Officer, Jackson Madison County General Hospital/West Tennessee HealthcareAs a Boy Scout in Chester County, James Ross got a taste of what a healthcare career may look like through the Explorer program. Just as the scouting program let him sample various aspects of healthcare, Ross’s career has been much of the same. Today as chief operating officer for Jackson Madison County General Hospital, those experiences are at the heart of who he has become.
For the better part of the Social Era, physicians have decried the use of social media among their target demographic: grownups and the elderly. But guess what? Dads, Moms and even Grandma are all up in social media tools like Facebook and it’s time you connected with them there.
Here are a few statistics that might be of interest to you. It involves the ranking of insured people under the age of 18 as a percentage of the total US population in 2012:
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The old way was no longer an option. To live, the patient needed something new.
St. Thomas Heart Group Serving a rural community such as Henry County is one very rewarding benefit to his cardiology practice for David Gibson, MD. With his primary practice in Nashville with Saint Thomas Heart, the cardiac division of Saint Thomas Health, Gibson travels over two hours once a week to Paris, TN, to see patients. It is the relationships developed with his patients that is at the heart of why he chose medicine as a career.
Malpractice suits are filed almost every day. Not all of them are justifiable. What steps are in place for physicians' redress?
