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Online specialty training statistics for General Surgery - including
residency programs, faculty, resident work hours, and compensation stats.
FREIDA Online graduates' career plans statistics for General Surgery.
There are numerous organizations which monitor physician compensation, click
this link for the results of ten physician salary surveys conducted by these
organizations. (Source:Physicians
Search, Inc.)
"Workforce Trends and Access to Surgical Care"
Issue paper from the American College of Surgeons
The medical liability crisis is not just a problem for physicians and
healthcare providers. Ultimately, patients suffer when specialists leave
practice as a result of rising malpractice premiums.
Are we able to find a specialist when we need one? Is out access to care
affected?
According to a survey of surgeons and other specialists in Pennsylvania:
58% reported that their patients have had to increase the distance that they
travel to see a specialist
83% reported increased waiting times for surgery and specialist care
89% were forced to change physicians
And how has the medical liability crisis affected the surgeons and specialists?
7% reported that they would retire
32% would likely relocate to a different state
50% are likely to reduce or eliminate high-risk aspects of practice
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Article provides one surgeon's insights into the evolution of trauma surgery
over the next decade.
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This article addresses the issues and perceptions of trauma surgery, including:
Perception: trauma care is increasingly non-operative
Perception: trauma surgeons prepare patients for surgical procedures performed
by other specialists
Issue: trauma care has lower professional reimbursement than many other
specialties
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Active senior citizens are choosing – sometimes demanding – surgery that once
would have seemed extreme for older patients. Healthier older people and
medical advances make it possible for surgeons to say yes to those demands.
Surgical advances mean quicker recovery. Dr. Richard Berger of Rush University
Medical Center has been doing outpatient hip and knee replacements with small
incisions and epidural anesthesia for several years.
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(Associated Press)
Ethicists may find the idea unacceptable, but at least two medical centers in
the U.S. are in the final phases of planning for a controversial new procedure:
a face transplant. Surgeons say they are ready to remove the face of a cadaver
and stitch it onto an adult who has been severely disfigured by trauma, burns
or tumors. The goal is helping people who often say they are shunned by society
and lead extremely unhappy lives. Currently doctors try to reconstruct faces by
transplanting tissue from other sites on the body in multiple operations –
sometimes 120 or more separate surgeries – and by implanting prosthetic
devices.
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