1) The annual number of patient visits per
resident physician has risen from 701 to 1,076.
For payment, the composite of the teaching physician and
resident physician note together must support the medical necessity and level of service billed by the teaching physician.
Contrary to popular belief, lawsuits against
resident physicians (house staff) are rare, with fewer than 100 cases reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank.
Conclusion: Patients from vulnerable populations have greater odds of being seen by a
resident physician for an ED visit.
The suit alleges that, by using the Match Day computer program to place residents into residency slots, the defendants have "illegally contracted, combined, and conspired among themselves to displace competition in the recruitment, hiring, employment, and compensation of
resident physicians, and to impose a scheme of restraints which have the purpose and effect of fixing, artificially depressing, standardizing, and stabilizing
resident physician compensation and other terms of employment.
However, the claims against the
resident physician and the hospital were resolved.
Hospital officials would not identify the man in the gorilla suit, except to say it was a
resident physician in the neurosurgery department.
Then the same form was given to a
resident physician, who used the algorithms to develop a plan of care.
Since the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, teaching hospitals have been prohibited from increasing the number of
resident physician training positions in their institutions.
Currently the attending physician and surgeon of Sinai Medical Center,
resident physician of 21st Century Radiation Centers, and attending physician for United Cerebral Palsy (Broward and Palm Beach counties), Dr.
Counsel for a defendant hospital may not communicate with a
resident physician in its employ who treated plaintiff after an accident at the hospital.
He is currently the attending physician and surgeon of Sinai Medical Center,
resident physician of 21st Century Radiation Centers, and attending physician for United Cerebral Palsy (Broward and Palm Beach counties).
