doctors
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Spine
Dallas Neurosurgical & Spine Doctors Provide Tips to Take the “Pain” out of National Pain Awareness Month
PLANO, TEXAS, September 18, 2024 – OrthosSpineNews – September is National Pain Awareness Month – an ideal time to explore causes…
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Regulatory
16 doctors, clinic owners sentenced in $250M opioid fraud scheme
By Dave Muoio / Mar 11, 2022 Sixteen people, including 12 doctors, will face prison time and hefty fines for their roles…
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Regulatory
Devicemaker-doctor relationships ripe for fraud litigation
ALEX KACIK / August 23, 2019 A recent False Claims Act lawsuit claiming that a medical device company paid kickbacks…
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Robotics
Scripps Encinitas Doctors First in West to Perform Spine Surgery with New Advanced Robotic Technology
ENCINITAS, CA–(Marketwired – January 12, 2017) – Doctors at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas have become the first west of the…
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Hospitals
Medicare to reward docs for ‘high need’ care coordination starting in January
By JUDITH GRAHAM – December 22, 2016 Doctors have complained for years that they’re not paid adequately for time-consuming work associated…
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Financial
Price Poised To Protect Doctors’ Interests At HHS
By Christina Jewett and Marisa Taylor – December 12, 2016 In picking Tom Price to be secretary of Health and Human Services,…
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Financial
Executives, Surgeons, Physicians, and Others Affiliated with Forest Park Medical Center (FPMC) in Dallas Indicted in Massive Conspiracy
December 1, 2016 DALLAS — Founders and investors of the physician-owned Forest Park Medical Center (FPMC) in Dallas, other executives…
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Sports Medicine
In-office tests may detect hip tendon problems before MRI
By Kathryn Doyle – September 28, 2016 (Reuters Health) – Two simple tests that can be done in a doctor’s…
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Extremities
Doctors thought it was a simple foot infection. They were so wrong.
By Sandra G. Boodman – August 22, 2016 Melissa Curley Bogner was baffled: Why did her feet feel suddenly hot —…
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Top Stories
A double-edged sword: What makes doctors great also drives burnout
By AMA staff writer Troy Parks – 6/21/2016 A physician burnout expert from the Mayo Clinic explained earlier this month…
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Top Stories
In a world’s first, doctors successfully resect 5 vertebrae with a 19cm 3D printed spinal implant
Jun 15, 2016 | By Alec The Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing, China is building up a…
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Extremities
Chinese doctors use 3D printed grafts in two successful ankle joint deformity surgeries
May 29, 2016 | By Alec Though numerous academic hospitals around the world are steadily adopting 3D printed models…
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Robotics
Robot doctors will ‘absolutely’ replace surgeons
29 April 16, by: MATTHEW REYNOLDS It’s only a matter of time before robots replace surgeons in the operating theatre,…
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Hospitals
Doctors Urge CMS, Joint Commission to Rethink Pain Treatment to Help Stem Opioid Epidemic
April 15, 2016 – Marty Stempniak Have patient satisfaction surveys and accreditation standards inadvertently contributed tothe ongoing opioid epidemic that’s killing…
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Recon
‘Biopen’ lets doctors 3D print cartilage during surgery
Peter Coffaro If you need knee replacement surgery in the future, doctors may be able to create a custom-made…
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