BUSINESS PEOPLE.
COLUMN: BUSINESS PEOPLE CMEA The Employers Association announces the promotion of Mark G. Patrick to president. Mr. Patrick, of North Grafton, has served CMEA membership since 1990, providing consultation on labor, employment and human resources issues. He has been a frequent presenter at CMEA seminars. Also an...

MEDICAL MEMOS.
COLUMN:MEDICAL MEMOS Saint Vincent Medical Group office, 102 Shore Drive, Worcester, has added three new physicians: Dr. Manoj Pulicottil, Dr. Ainum Haq and Dr. Sunita Trivedi. Dr. Pulicottil was an internist for three years with Candler Internal Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine....

CA: suspension of hospital privileges voided: retroactive application of amended rules illegal.
CASE FACTS: In 2001, after completing his medical training in nephrology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Sohail Nasim applied for medical staff membership in the hospital's Department of Internal Medicine. The hospital approved his application, and Dr. Nasim joined the provisional medical staff with physician privileges...

Physician quality can't be boiled down to a few measures.
PITTSBURGH--Preliminary results from the American Board of Internal Medicine's Comprehensive Care Project confirm what many internists already know intuitively: Overall physician "quality" can't accurately be described using a single or limited number of conditions and/or measures. "General internists play a central role in caring for patients with...

Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) Release Including Reaction to ACS Report Crediting Early Detection for Drop in Colon Cancer Deaths From A. Mark Fendrick, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and David Johnson, MD, President of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG).
Experts Laud Strides in Screening; Caution That More Needs to Be Done LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The colon cancer death rate dropped more than that of any other major cancer in 2003 - 2004, according to an American Cancer Society report released today, which noted...

Ross University Medicine Graduates Respond to U.S. Primary Care Crisis.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 September 2008-Ross University Medicine Graduates Respond to U.S. Primary Care Crisis(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Overwhelming numbers of Ross University School of Medicine graduates are responding to a deepening healthcare crisis by choosing to go into primary care, the university reported. ...

Improving the peer review process.
If you are unfairly peer reviewed by your competition and your hospital privileges are suspended, you don't have any recourse with the current system ("A Matter of Privilege," Law & Medicine, Jan. 15, 2008, p. 34). The decision to suspend or not suspend you is made by...

Tool helps prompt antihypertensive prescribing.
TORONTO -- Computerized reminders that were flashed to primary care physicians as they checked and recorded their patients' blood pressures led to a small but significant improvement in the rate of prescribing drugs that followed hypertension-management guidelines. But in this study, which randomized 14 general medicine clinics...

Revering the work of physician writers.
Well before he attended medical school at Columbia University, New York, Dr. Daniel C. Bryant had been captivated by reading and writing, underscored by an undergraduate degree in French literature that he earned from Princeton (N.J.) University in 1961. In the 1980s, he began to notice that...