By Jeff Bendix, Charlotte Huff, Rose Schneider Krivich, Chris Mazzolini, Mary Pratt, and Todd Shryock. 2016 was a challenging year on many fronts for healthcare providers. Physicians have just started to digest the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and its changes to physician reimbursement. A long presidential election finally reached its conclusion, but the […]
The minimally invasive surgery evolution benefits patients’ recovery, but still faces resistance from patients and surgeons as Dr. Mona Orady explains. We’re well within a new era of healing patients in a way that helps them return to normal life quickly and without much pain or scarring, but there are too many medical professionals who […]
By Vanusa Melo A few weeks ago I found myself in a hospital bed waiting to undergo a surgical procedure. I didn’t realize how much medicine has evolved, so when the doctors said I needed to remove my appendix and an ovarian cyst, I panicked. I was already thinking about the days of school I […]
