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| Current Louisiana Medical News |
Healthcare Reform Affects Medical Society’s Membership
Anger over the American Medical Association’s support of the healthcare reform bill has slowed the Louisiana State Medical Society’s membership renewals, a sign of physicians’ growing frustration, officials said.
TED GRIGGS |
Healthcare Reform Boosts Primary Care
Reimbursement Incentives Offered to Ease the Strain
Well, it’s done, and depending on your perspective, the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that sets about reforming America’s health system could be a boon or it could be a bust. For most stakeholders, reality is somewhere in the middle.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
| Best Business Practices Focus |
Playing Well With Others
Building Strong Relationships in an Evolving Environment
In theory, hospital administrators, physicians and nurses are all on the same team with the same ultimate goal — delivering the highest quality of patient care possible. In practice, those relationships are easily strained as fiscal realities, misaligned objectives and strong personalities are factored into the equation.
CINDY SANDERS |
Caring for the Largest Organ
Melanoma on the Rise in Teens
With summer just around the corner, Louisiana teens are gearing up for the beach by getting their “base” tans. But, many of them are unwittingly exposing themselves to the most deadly skin cancer of all – melanoma. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, melanoma is the most common form of cancer for 25 to 29-year-olds, and the second most common in teens and young adults ages 15-29. That rate is increasing faster in those most prone to tanning – girls 15 to 29 years old – than guys in the same age group.
LISA HANCHEY |
Fostering an Epidemic of Skin Cancer
Dermatologists Take Aim at Indoor Tanning
On an average day in America, more than 1 million people visit an indoor tanning salon. That’s why dermatologists nationwide have declared war on the practice, which research overwhelmingly has shown causes cancer.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Dr. Jayendra Kantibhai Patel
The Tri-Continental Man
Some docs consider themselves worldly, but how many can say that they’ve practiced on three continents? Tanzanian native Jayendra Patel, who is of Indian descent, worked as a physician in Asia and Africa before settling in the U.S. Now, he has gone bicoastal, moving from Rhode Island to Louisiana, where he is now in private practice.
LISA HANCHEY |
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