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Talk with the Doc: Ultrasound tech shortage, using AI in medicine, stroke care
Dr. Trevor Jain is back to answer your health question on topics like wait times for ultrasound results, how physicians are using artificial intelligence and what stroke care looks like in ERs. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin sat down with the P.E.I. emergency department doctor to get the answers.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7162206?cmp=rss

mloxton 1d ago

#Physicians did you remember the essentials?

- Wash your hands
- Grab your stethoscope
- Don your red sash

Bich Nguyen 1d ago

"For the second time in less than a week, a Venezuelan physician has been detained in South Texas as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

The latest doctor, Rubeliz Bolivar, who worked in a hospital emergency room in the Rio Grande Valley, a federally designated underserved medical area, was detained on Saturday after checking into a flight to California."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/second-venezuelan-doctor-detained-in-south-texas-by-immigration-agents.html

#healthcare #physicians #immigration #detention #ICE #DHS

Second Venezuelan Doctor Detained in South Texas by Immigration Agents

An E.R. doctor was detained Saturday, just days after a family physician had been detained. Both were traveling when immigration agents took them into custody.

The New York Times

Bich Nguyen 3d ago

"A decades-old federal program designed to put Native Hawaiian doctors and nurses to work in some of Hawaiʻi’s most underserved communities has become the target of national conservative activists whose stated mission is to 'expose political bias and discrimination in healthcare and medical education.'"

https://apnews.com/article/native-hawaiian-health-scholarship-discrimination-lawsuit-bd9c28962225216e1162601af4e5d4ee

#healthcare #education #MedEd #physicians #nurses #diversity #equity #inclusion #disparities #Indigenous #courts #hawaii

Conservative Activists Take Aim At Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship

A decades-old federal program designed to put Native Hawaiian doctors and nurses to work in some of Hawaiʻi’s most underserved communities has become the target of national conservative activists whose stated mission is to “expose political bias and discrimination in healthcare and medical education

AP News

Wisdom in Space 4d ago

Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients.
-- Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilkieCollins #Deception #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

CBC Newfoundland & Labrador 5d ago

NLHS backtracks on parts of electronic health system rollout after docs speak out
After N.L. doctors raised concerns, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is backtracking on some aspects of an agreement that previously made a new health information system mandatory for all physicians. “We've listened to those concerns. We've made adjus...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nlhs-backtracks-on-parts-of-electronic-health-system-rollout-after-docs-speak-out-9.7158053?cmp=rss

CBC Saskatchewan 6d ago

Sask. to empower College of Physicians and Surgeons to investigate 'unlawful practice of medicine'
The proposed changes come after the CPSS told CBC it had no ability to investigate and effectively deal with a business that practises medicine without a licence.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-college-physicians-surgeons-unlawful-praxctice-medicine-9.7139367?cmp=rss

Bich Nguyen Apr 4

"After more than two years of negotiations, a union representing more than 600 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners at Allina Health clinics has reached a tentative first contract agreement.

Doctors Council SEIU said the three-year deal was reached late Wednesday night."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/02/allina-health-doctors-clinicians-tentative-first-contract-agreement

#healthcare #physicians #clinics #workers #labor #unions #minnesota

Allina Health doctors, clinicians reach tentative first contract agreement

After more than two years of negotiations, a union representing more than 600 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners at Allina Health clinics has reached a tentative first contract agreement.

MPR News

Wisdom in Space Apr 3

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
-- Voltaire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

Bich Nguyen Apr 2

"President Donald Trump says people from the countries are national security threats, but the visa pause is forcing physicians who’ve lived in the U.S. for years to stop working and exacerbating staffing shortages that are a longstanding headache for hospital administrators, more than a dozen foreign doctors told POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/a-slowdown-in-visa-processing-is-wreaking-havoc-on-foreign-doctors-lives-00853010

#healthcare #hospitals #physicians #visas #immigration #DHS #USpol

A slowdown in US visa processing is wreaking havoc on foreign doctors’ lives

Physicians from countries Trump deemed national security threats are reaching the end of their visas without responses to their renewal applications.

Politico