Saybie, who weighed just 8.6 ounces, is believed to be the smallest baby to survive a premature birth, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Missouri, and Ohio.
Hospitals have about one month to ensure their off-campus and outpatient facilities' addresses exactly match what CMS has on file or risk missing out on Medicare payments.
Medical students today not only have less time to practice surgical procedures than their predecessors, but many are entering school with less of the manual dexterity that is critical to performing surgical procedures—and their childhood hobbies may be to blame, Kate Murphy reports for the New York Times.
When Monique Tello, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Googled her name last fall, she was shocked to find more than 100 negative and one-star reviews on physician rating websites—apparently posted by anti-vaccine groups in retaliation for Tello's pro-vaccine advocacy, Liz Kowalczyk reports for the Boston Globe.
