June 2024

by Elizabeth Short, Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 19, 2024 Children with asthma were substantially less likely to see an outpatient specialist if they had Medicaid rather than private health insurance, a cross-sectional study revealed. In an analysis of child-year observations in the Massachusetts All Payer Claims Database from 2014 to 2020, specialty care use

By Melissa Schiffman, MD June 6, 2024, Original article Featured in Op-Med, a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Recently, I said a single word that made me feel instantly lighter, freer, more expansive. This one word liberated a huge block of time and awakened vast possibilities of things I could accomplish. The

Mariah Taylor (Email) Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) market has embraced flexible nursing with autonomous scheduling and float shifts between hospitals for years. The system’s prioritization of flexibility has helped keep nurses in the system and reduced the need for agency nurses. ACE Bon Secours Hampton Roads has built a strong pipeline of new nurses

— Findings also highlight the difficulty of managing chronic pain by Associated Press June 18, 2024 A new study documents lost opportunities to treat drug overdose survivors covered by the Medicare program — and illustrates the difficulty of managing chronic pain. Overdose survivors “should be at the front of the line for the full range

Madeline Ashley – Becker’s Hospital Review As private equity expands across the healthcare industry and proper patient care is brought into question, Don Berwick, MD, a Harvard Medical School health policy lecturer in Boston and former CMS administrator during the Obama administration, called for an extended Hippocratic Oath for all who work in healthcare. During

Erica Carbajal – Becker’s Clinical Report A growing proportion of nurses say incidents of violence and aggression they face on the job have become routine. As a result, many are considering an exit from the profession altogether. In the first week of April — which the National Institutes of Health recognizes as Workplace Violence Prevention