Doctors

Surgery Billing

Removing a splinter? Treating a wart? If a doctor does it, it can be billed as surgery

America is increasingly dependent on foreign doctors − but their path to immigration is getting harder

U.S. Doctors Immigration

After seeing a high-speed, 3-car crash in Vermont, a Temple Hospital resident rushed to aid the people injured

Kiley Nygren Temple

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Medicare CCM Doctors

A researcher's prescription for better health care: A dose of humility for doctors, nurses and clinicians

Doctor Patient Humility

New Pa. law requires consent for medical students to perform pelvic, rectal exams on unconscious patients

Pennsylvania Pelvic Exams

Compensation is key to fixing primary care shortage

Primary Care Shortage

Why it's so tough to reduce unnecessary medical care

Unnecessary Medical Care

Who will care for older adults? We've plenty of know-how but too few specialists

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Police blame some deaths on 'excited delirium.' ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term

Excited Delirium

The shrinking number of primary care physicians is reaching a tipping point

Primary Care Doctor

When temps rise, so do medical risks. Should doctors and nurses talk more about heat?

Heat Health Risks

Coalition that aims to improve diversity among Philly's doctors receives grant from IBX Foundation

Diversity Doctors Philly

Two new healthcare facilities are coming to Northeast Philly

health care center frankford

Penn Medicine residents and fellows vote to unionize, becoming the state's first hospital house staff union

Penn Medicine Union

Health Insurance

Prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients, may be reined in

Prior authorization health care

Penn Medicine residents move to unionize, joining a nationwide trend

Penn Medicine Union

Haven't seen your doctor in a few years? You may need to find a new one

Primary Care Doctor

Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination

Medical bias

Penn Medicine seeks to expand value-based care by buying stake in Tandigm Health

Penn Medicine Tandigm Health

Men often hesitate to visit a doctor, but there are effective ways to persuade them

Men's Health Doctor Visit

Telemedicine can help reduce racial disparity in follow-up appointments, study finds

Telemedicine Study Penn

Dr. Oz considering run as Republican for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania

Center City doctor agrees to pay $2 million for illegally prescribing opioids

Stephen Padnes opioids

City Honors Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium with Magis Award

Black Doctor's COVID Consortium Magis Award

Men, it's time to make the routine doctor's visit a habit

Physical Exam Benefits

Q&A: Local medical expert explains Joel Embiid's meniscus injury and path forward

Colorectal cancer screenings should start for adults at age 45, medical task force says

Colorectal cancer screenings

Stigma against D.O.s had been declining until Trump’s doctor took the spotlight

These secret safety panels will pick the COVID-19 vaccine winners

COVID-19 vaccine safety panel

Philly, Pittsburgh rank among top cities for health care jobs, report finds

Philly Health Jobs

U.S. facing a growing physician shortage and COVID-19 may be making it worse

U.S. physician shortage

Cherry Hill doctor wins role in upcoming Kevin Hart film

Pennsylvania coronavirus researcher found dead in apparent murder-suicide

Bing Liu Coronavirus

Health Hero Match app co-developed by Penn student wins international hackathon

Hackathon Penn Spagnola

Rutgers launches nation's largest study of health care workers exposed to COVID-19

Rutgers COVID-19 Healthcare

New Jersey to issue emergency medical licenses to foreign doctors

Emergency medical license doctor

Philadelphia doctor writes about scarcity of supplies and lack of planning at one city hospital

COVID-19 Philadelphia hospital doctor

New Jersey doctor, the self-declared 'El Chapo of Opioids,' admits to writing illegal narcotics prescriptions

Pill Mill Doctor Delagente

Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that's a hard match to make

Minority doctor-patient relationship

To combat opioid crisis, Gov. Wolf expands college debt repayment program for addiction specialists

Addiction Specialist Pennsylvania College Loan Repayment program

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