Tag: doctors
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State officials appear to be overstating successes of new prescription-drug law, The Courier-Journal reports
There’s new criticism from Kentucky’s doctors in an analysis of the state’s four-month old prescription drug law, showing that a lot of what state officials have touted as the law’s...
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Doctor’s rejection of the willfully obese makes exercise expert ask: Who’s responsible for your health? Who should pay for it?
Bryant Stamford, professor and chairman of the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College in Indiana, wrote in his weekly exercise-and-health column Thursday’s edition of The Courier-Journal: “I caught...
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Pill-mill bill causing problems for patients who have long-term prescriptions: expensive drug-screening tests
In July, Kentucky started making long-time holders of certain controlled-substances prescriptions submit to urine tests to determine if they were actually taking the drugs, rather than selling them. Because insurance companies...
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Doctor complaints about bill aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse largely based on misconceptions, health officials say
State health officials say doctors’ complaints about House Bill 1, which cracks down on pill mills and doctors who supply the illegal prescription pill trade, result from misunderstandings and misconceptions about the...
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Pikeville newspaper spotlights local doctors and pharmacists charged in prescription pain-pill epidemic, forecasts more action
The Appalachian News-Express, the thrice-weekly newspaper in Pikeville, has turned the spotlight on Pike County physicians and pharmacists who are aiding and abetting the abuse of prescription painkillers. We have...
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41 percent of the time, Americans go to specialists instead of primary-care doctors for basic health needs, study finds
More than 40 percent of the time, Americans are turning to higher-paid specialists instead of primary-care doctors to deal with their basic health needs, including colds and fever, a new...
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New health law and aging baby boomers’ anticipated strain on the system is about to make chronic doctor shortage worse
Kentucky’s persistent physician shortage is hardly new. Almost a century ago, the Frontier Nursing Service came to Hyden on the presumption that doctors wouldn’t. A report from the Health Resources...
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Doctors shifting from private practice to large hospitals for more security under health-care reform
Associated Press photo by Michael Schennum. The days of hanging up a shingle and opening shop are becoming more and more unusual for doctors. Afraid of being left without protection in...
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Health-care system not ready to deal with baby boomers as they get old, expert says at seminar on aging
When it comes to dealing with aging baby boomers, the nation’s health-care system isn’t ready to deal with them, Dr. Gregg Warshaw, left, said at the University of Kentucky‘s Summer...
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Hopkinsville paper examines doctor shortage, reasons for it
Albert Delaney waits for his wife Agnes in Hopkinsville.(Photo by Kentucky New Era’s Tom Kane) Nick Tabor of the Kentucky New Era examines Christian County’s doctor shortage, with the area...