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Panel backs broader powers for advanced nurses in rural areas (quotes MAG president)
Georgia Health News
A Senate study committee Monday recommended the state allow advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) broader medical authority if they work in rural, underserved counties. | READ MORE
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Debunking myths: Physicians’ incomes are too high and they are the cause of rising health care costs (features Physicians Foundation leaders)
Forbes
It seems that whenever there is a discussion of health care costs in America, at least one critic pops up – usually more than one – who carps about physician fees, income, earnings, etc., and how they greatly impact rising health care costs. | READ MORE
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Smyrna postpones decision on handheld ban (features MAG Government Relations director)
AJC
A decision on whether to ban the use of handheld cell phones or other electronic devices while driving has been delayed by the Smyrna City Council until at least Dec. 18. | READ MORE
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Drivers [in Georgia] may see cellphone ban
Rome News-Tribune
Legislation banning the use of cellphones while driving is being drafted for the upcoming Georgia General Assembly session and, this time around, Rep. Eddie Lumsden expects wide support. | READ MORE
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New U.S. attorney targeting opioid crisis
Georgia Health News
The illegal use of prescription painkillers is decreasing, but heroin and synthetic fentanyl have grown in popularity among drug users here, says the new U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. | READ MORE
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Dr. Douglas Lundy elected as president-elect of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (features MAG member)
Cobb Business Journal
Douglas W. Lundy, MD, MBA, co-president of Resurgens Orthopaedics, which has several Cobb County locations, has been elected as president-elect of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery for a one-year term. | READ MORE
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States preparing for children's health insurance program to run out of funding: report
The Hill
Nearly a dozen states are readying for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides insurance to low-income children, to run out of funding, according to a report from The Washington Post. | READ MORE
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Amid rural hospital crisis, one Georgia hospital [in Miller County] thrives
WABE
Two years ago, David Roman Reyes was hanging out in his apartment in Fort Myers, Florida, when he started feeling sick. | READ MORE
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Indian physicians in immigration limbo (features MAG member)
Rome News-Tribune
Immigration, now a hot-button issue in Washington, is also a major concern for an entire community of medical professionals in Rome for entirely different reasons. Physicians native to India almost find themselves as professionals without a country, stuck in a quagmire of immigration paperwork. | READ MORE
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They didn't get vaccinated. Now they're out of jobs.
NBC News
About 50 employees of Essentia Health, an upper-Midwest hospital chain, didn’t go to work Wednesday. | READ MORE
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Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout
Reuters
Dr. Brian Halloran, a vascular surgeon at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, starts planning his garden long before spring arrives in southeast Michigan. | READ MORE
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Taken for a ride? Ambulances stick patients with surprise bills
Kaiser Health News
One patient got a $3,660 bill for a 4-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from one hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she’d been taken by ambulance without her consent. | READ MORE
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