"Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would exempt physicians and other healthcare workers from a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa petitions critics said would exacerbate workforce shortages."

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/bipartisan-bill-introduced-exempt-healthcare-workers-100000-h-1b-visa-fee

#healthcare #hospitals #RuralHealth #physicians #nurses #workforce #immigrant #immigration #USpol

‘American Doctor’ Review: An Unflinching Chronicle of Three Courageous US #Physicians Who Volunteered in Gaza
Director Poh Si Teng followed a trio of doctors who performed surgeries while the war raged on, risking their lives to save others.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/american-doctor-review-gaza-documentary-1236480354/

from #HollywoodReporter
Jan 23, 2026

It’s hard to make a #documentary about the war in #Gaza that does not feel overtly political. And yet director Poh Si Teng’s unflinching new exposé, American #Doctor, is first and foremost a #humanitarian story — one in which #medicine and moral decency take precedence over partisanship.

[...] By its very existence — and in what it reveals about the IDF’s killing, maiming and wounding of #Palestinian civilians over the past few years — the film is a condemnation both of #Netanyahu’s far-right #war machine and the #US government’s steadfast support of it.

#SanctionIsrael
#StopStarvingGaza
#FreePalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics #film #cinema

"Medicine hasn’t always been a level playing field—for patients or doctors. For centuries, women faced barriers just for studying, practicing, or researching medicine. Yet a handful of trailblazers broke through discrimination to reshape healthcare, simultaneously forwarding feminism in the United States."

https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/women-who-changed-medicine

#healthcare #medicine #physicians #women #diversity #equity #inclusion

"Two prominent doctors from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down on Tuesday after a report found that staff members were discouraged from reporting abuse committed by Robert Hadden, who sexually assaulted hundreds of patients while employed at both institutions."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/nyregion/columbia-hospitals-hadden-resignation.html

#healthcare #MedEd #hospitals #physicians #misconduct #abuse #bioethics

"Thousands of primary care practices, a key gateway to the medical system, are fighting to remain financially viable — and independent.

In response, many are banding together to form Independent Physician Associations, or IPAs. The goal is to increase their market power, change the way they get paid, and retain control over how they treat patients."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/primary-care-independent-physicians-boost-market-power/

#healthcare #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #physicians #clinics #RuralHealth #business #industry

Physicians obviously cannot prevent death; at best, the can substitute one cause of death for another, one time of death for another, one manner of death for another.... In the end, medicine must fail to cure, though there is no similar restraint on the possibilities of care.
-- H. Tristram Engelhardt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HTristramEngelhardt #Death #Medicine #Mortality #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sealions #Beach #Galapagos

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelTaylorColeridge #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MississippiRiver #PikesPeak #Iowa