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Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
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I said this before and I will say it again, it's time for the playing field to be leveled in healthcare.
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Today, Dr. Craig Uthe, a Family Practice phsyician in Sioux Falls, came in to talk to the medical students during their Introduction to Clinical Medicine class. The topic for the day was Substance Abuse in General Practice. We learned lots about the addiction process, and the tough road through r
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In an effort to reduce nurse fatigue, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) has released a position paper outlining different risk-reducing strategies to decrease fatigue and stress while on the job. With long hours, mandatory overtime and understaffed units, nurse fatigue has been a g
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Dr. Rob hosts this week's Grand Rounds, advice to Mr. No Llama style.
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I was following an interesting conversation on Twitter between several nurses. They were expressing concern about how nursing stereotypes were damaging to their profession. I invited them to discuss the subject with me via podcast. You can listen to the whole conversation here. I have summarized so
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This week I was privy to a nurse manager stating to their staff that they were not clinically able to function in the department when the staff asked the manager to come in and work during a staffing short fall. Nurse Managers have been parked behind a desk for so long that their skills as a nurse
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Magnets may pose a problem but experts say there's no need to overreact
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