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Web Course Teaches Doctors About Business
Posted on January 9th, 2011 No comments
Lead author Linnea S. Hauge of the University of Michigan Medical School says medical residents say they lack instruction and feel ill prepared to run the small businesses doctors in private practice must manage.“Residents have told us they lack instruction in practice management and the business of healthcare and feel under-prepared for when they leave the training environment,” Hauge says in a statement. “Given the growing time restrictions in surgery training, the flexibility of Web-based learning is attractive to both surgical educators and residents.”
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ECMO team treats its 2,000th patient, a twin boy born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Posted on January 3rd, 2011 No comments
“Victor had almost no diaphragm, he had small lungs, pulmonary hypertension, and blood was not going through his lungs… he needed the ECMO badly,” says Hirschl, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief and Section Head of Pediatric Surgery at Mott Children’s Hospital and Victor’s surgeon. “He is a perfect example of a child who wouldn’t be here today were it not for ECMO.Victor has become a special baby for other reasons. He is the University of Michigan’s 2000th patient to be placed on ECMO.
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