Since that some hospital foundation and HMO groups assign physicians to the inpatient service, where they take over the total management of patients with whom they are unfamiliar, Luis E Cebrian, MD, a GP from Chico has a word of caution. Coming from the National Health Service (NHS) in England, where “hospitalists” are called consultants, […]

Headlines in the WSJ indicate that the state made a surprise series of raids. No these were not drug dealers, smugglers, rapists, murderers or other felons. These raids were on non-profit and university hospitals. Were they selling organs or body parts? No, they were checking on the hours that the house staff was working. These […]

In the 1970s, there were presentations to the Sacramento Society of Internal Medicine (SSIM) indicating that we as internists and medical specialists were not being fairly rewarded for our cognitive skills. Some of the more “enlightened” members spent a great deal of time and effort in order to come up with a Resourced Based RVS […]