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Black Women in Medicine: Five African-Americans Who’ve Made Advances
Some of the most profound advances in medicine have made us all breathe a bit easier. And for that we are thankful. The fact is, we don’t have to look outside our own community for a short list of those deserving of our gratitude for research in areas like breast cancer, asthma, and eye health. African American women are celebrated researchers, in medicine. Here’s a list of few notable contributors:
In 2009 Dr. Lisa Newman took a 16 hour journey to Ghana, Africa to uncover the mysteries of African American women’s mortal enemy: triple negative breast cancer. Newman, director of the Breast Care Center for the University of Michigan, is at the forefront of the fight against this form of cancer that is twice as likely to strike women of African descent as white woman. Also, women with triple negative breast cancer have a five year survival rate of 77 percent, compare that to women with other forms of breast cancer, who have a five year survival rate of 93 percent.
When Credit Cards Get in on Healthcare
(Wall Street Journal) — Should you finance your plastic surgery with plastic? Credit-card issuers are stepping up their marketing of health-care cards and lines of credit that help borrowers finance costly elective medical procedures. The cards, which typically boast initial interest rates of 0%, are targeted to clients of plastic surgeons, dentists and even veterinarians. Though they help some people pay for important procedures, the cards come with a number of drawbacks that may not be apparent at sign-up, including rates that can quickly spike. Some big firms are ramping up their offerings. Citigroup Inc. offers the Citi Health Card, while J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. pitches ChaseHealthAdvance, a line of credit aimed at helping customers finance elective health procedures such as corrective eye surgery. Even General Electric Co.’s GE Money unit offers a card, called CareCredit.
The 10 Highest Paying Jobs In The Land
We already knew that healthcare was a stable industry; nurses, doctors and administrators usually don’t have to worry about layoffs or the recessionary effects on their careers. Now there’s even more reason to want to go into the healthcare field. According to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics‘ annual Occupational Employment and Wages report, eight of the top ten highest paying jobs in the country are in the healthcare sector.
10. Psychiatrists
Average annual wages: $167,610
Median hourly wages: $80.58
Number of employees with occupation: 22,690
New York State Looking To Check Caribbean Medical Schools
by R. Asmerom
Medical school is not an easy venture for any aspiring doctor. Not only is it a tasking profession but one which is extremely competitive. So competitive that many American medical students go overseas to the Caribbean to take advantage of programs like the one offered by Ross University in Dominica.
According to the New York Times, however, that education funnel is under threat. As it stands today, many of those Caribbean based programs promise their students that they’d be able to do their third and fourth year trainings at New York state hospitals, but it appears that New York State medical schools are now campaigning to end the setup by which Caribbean schools use New York state as extensions of their campus. According to the Times, “New York has been particularly affected by the influx because it trains more medical students and residents — fledgling doctors who have just graduated from medical school — than any other state. The New York medical school deans say that they want to expand their own enrollment to fill the looming shortage, but that their ability to do so is impeded by competition with the Caribbean schools for clinical training slots in New York hospitals.”
The U.S. has a shortage of doctors and more than a quarter of the residents in United States hospitals are trained outside of the country. School officials from the Caribbean schools are saying that the opportunity to help meet this demand and tackle the doctor shortage should be embraced. New York medical schools are standing by the edict of the American Medical Association which contends that “the core clinical curriculum of a foreign medical school should be provided by that school and that U.S. hospitals should not provide substitute core clinical experience.”
Illinois Takes Steps to Stop Doctors Who Abuse Patients
(Chicago Tribune) — Rudy Bermudez was so upset when his fellow members on the Medical Board of California restored the license of a doctor convicted of sexually abusing a patient that when Bermudez was later elected to the state Assembly he penned legislation to revoke the license automatically of every doctor with a sex-crime conviction. As Illinois policymakers begin crafting better ways to stop sexual misconduct by physicians in this state, Bermudez says they should consider his law, which has permanently stripped the licenses of sex-offending doctors across California.
Doctor Bottleneck Meets Medicaid Surge
(Bloomberg) — Of the five doctors in the New Albany Medical Group in rural northern Mississippi, only one can accept new patients. He specializes in geriatrics.
“Frankly, as people die off, he replaces them,” said Jason Dees, one of the physicians in the group in the Union County seat of New Albany, where William Faulkner was born. “We’re all pretty booked, and there’s still more demand.”
Doctor Bottleneck Meets Medicaid Surge
(Bloomberg) — Of the five doctors in the New Albany Medical Group in rural northern Mississippi, only one can accept new patients. He specializes in geriatrics.
“Frankly, as people die off, he replaces them,” said Jason Dees, one of the physicians in the group in the Union County seat of New Albany, where William Faulkner was born. “We’re all pretty booked, and there’s still more demand.”
