Healthcare Update Satellite — 12-13-2013

More healthcare news from around the web can also be found on my other blog at DrWhiteCoat.com Vacancy rate for physicians at hospitals nearly doubles in four years and vacancy rate for nurses at hospitals triples in four years. NPs and PAs also in short supply. Even though I’m no Obamacare fan, I don’t think the provider shortage can be blamed on the new healthcare law as the Forbes article insinuates. But if the shortage is because fewer people want to go into the medical field, there are going to be large problems in the future. It takes 11 years of secondary education to train a doctor. That’s a long time to wait if there isn’t enough medical care for all of the newly “insured” patients. Cook County jury hits University of Chicago Hospital and two doctors with $15.5 million judgment after patient died during childbirth from undiagnosed placenta accreta. Sticking up for Obamacare twice in a week? I must be falling ill. Kentucky family physician Stephen Kiteck puts ad in paper stating that he is closing his practice “due to the policies of Obamacare.” When he finally granted an interview, Dr. Kiteck said that a requirement to use electronic medical records were the reason he was retiring. The EMR requirement wasn’t part of Obamacare. There’s still too damn much regulation in medicine anyway, though. Epic fail? How much does the Epic electronic medical record system suck? Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center reportedly lost $16.8 million in direct expense...
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