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Competitive Spirit Drives Physician Athletes
The competitive spirit has been alive in man since the dawn of time, when the swiftest were running, not for laurels, but to keep one step ahead of a saber-tooth tiger. With natural selection at work, only the strongest survived to pass along their genes to new generations. That same competitive drive, tempered by time and refined by a sense of camaraderie, keeps three area physicians striving to stay at the top of their game in their respective athletic endeavors.
CARA CLARK |
Congress Mounts New Attack on Physician-Owned Hospitals
In what has become an annual event, physician-owned hospitals are once again under attack by Congress. The latest assault on physician-owned hospitals was tucked inside the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424), which would require health plans offering mental health coverage to provide the same benefits for mental illness as they do for other medical conditions.
JUDD HARWOOD |
Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Patients Face Troubles in Managing Finances
Daniel Marson, JD, PhD, director of the UAB Alzheimer’s Disease Center in the Department of Neurology, is leading author of a recent study that shows a significant decline in the ability of patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to make sound financial decisions. The results of the study, which followed the patients over a one-year period, point to an increased susceptibility to marketing schemes and a decline in the ability to manage fundamental financials such as bill payment and bank statements.
CARA CLARK |
Grand Rounds April
Freeman Named Chief Administrative Officer at Alacare
Nyla Japp Joins IMS
DCH Foundation Names Special Events Manager
Trinity Names Executives
Samford to Offer Nursing Doctorate
Children’s Hospital Names New Gastroenterology Physician
Ball Awarded for Scholarly Distinction
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How Medical Professional Liability Insurers Work
Medical professional liability insurance is a complex necessity for practicing medicine today. Its purpose is to protect your reputation, livelihood and assets by defending you against claims and making payments in settlements or judgments. The right insurance partner will also advise you in risk-management skills that enhance your productivity, improve patient safety and reduce the occurrence of claims and lawsuits.
CATHY DELOZIER |
New Asthma Guidelines Offer Step Therapy Approach
“The idea is to give physicians a step-by-step process, so it’s not randomly ‘let’s try this, and let’s try that’ in the long-term management of asthma,” explained pulmonologist Oksana Senyk, MD, PhD, FCCP and chief of the pulmonary division at Trinity Medical Center.
JANE EHRHARDT |
Pharmacist Not Liable for Harm Resulting from Physician’s Mistake
On February 29, 2008, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an opinion ruling that a pharmacist and pharmacy owe no duty to their customer for a physician’s prescribing mistake. The plaintiff sought to impose liability on a pharmacist not based on the theory that a drug dispenser has a duty to warn customers, but rather that the pharmacist breached his duty of care to the customer when the pharmacist gave the patient’s doctor allegedly incomplete dosing information.
JIMM HOOVER |
Physician Spotlight: David Glasgow, MD
A three-year stint in the U.S. Navy as a general medical officer led Dr. David Glasgow to make the decision to go into pediatric medicine. “My father was a radiologist at Lloyd Nolan for many years. I probably would have gone into radiology, but my experience treating women and children in the Navy whetted my interest in pediatrics and made radiology seem sterile and boring.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Record Turnout for Statewide MGMA Meeting
A record crowd attended the Alabama MGMA spring conference this March, which was hosted by The Wynfrey Hotel.
“The MGMA has been meeting here for over ten years,” said Rusti Price, Director of Sales and Marketing for The Wynfrey. “We’re always excited to have them.”
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Joe Larussa, MD listens to a patients chest. |
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Top 5 Things Asthma Specialists want Primary Physicians to Know
Great potential is on the horizon for asthma treatment, but nothing monumental in therapies has occurred this year. “There’s a surgery that might help some asthmatics. There’s better drugs coming out soon, but nothing definite yet on the market,” said Adina Knight, MD, an allergist at Alabama Allergy & Asthma Center and an assistant professor at UAB.
JANE EHRHARDT |
UAB Researches LRRK2 Gene Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
UAB researchers — who received a $200,000 grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to study a mutation gene, LRRK2 — have made a direct link between LRRK2 and the existence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in some families. The grant allows researchers to study the role of kinase activity in the gene, but already the UAB Department of Neurology has determined the mutation gene’s relationship to heredity.
CARA CLARK |
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