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Most women surgeons would choose their careers again, although many would favor more options for part-time or other alternative work schedules, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery.
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What do the following famous people have in common? Jill Biden, Pope Benedict XVI, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Dixie Chicks.
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Looks like I struck a nerve with the column on physicians as employees ("Meet your new employee: Dr. Smith, surgeon," Same-Day Surgery, July 2009).
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The administrative manager of a surgery center had been asking to have access to the banking account, but the business manager said that the center was "maxed out on users" and he couldn't give her access.
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According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the economic stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year included several changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) involving privacy of patient information:
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A woman goes in for an abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy. Subsequent pain, nausea, and vomiting lead to medical attention and hospitalization, but the cause isn't identified.
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Every manager wants to believe that the credentialing process has properly vetted all the organization's health care professionals to ensure that they are qualified and have no known criminal record.
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[Editor's note: President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have agreed to spend more than $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research (CER), which some critics say will lead to an unethical strategy of the government justifying rationing health care. Others say it will provide needed information to clinicians about which medical treatment works best. But from an IRB perspective, will CER trials pose any new or more serious risks to human subjects? IRB Advisor asks CER experts nationwide to help us answer this question and others about CER in two stories in this month's issue.]
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Whenever the research enterprise is pushed into a new direction, some different ethical issues and considerations arise. Experts say this likely will be the case as more research institutions engage in comparative effectiveness research (CER), as well.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires that new psychiatric drugs be tested against placebo to ensure that they are effective.
