Bradley Schmidt

The need for more providers to deliver primary care is unquestioned, but can non-MDs deliver the same quality of care independent of physician sueprvision?

Women as young as 50 "with an equivalent fracture risk" to a 65-year-old woman (smoking, low BMI, family history, excessive alcohol use) should be screened.

Patients with long-term diabetes have both functioning beta cells and C-peptides which seem to offer protection against the disease's debilitating comorbidities. This discovery already has researchers thinking about a way to restore pancreas functionality.

As national healthcare reform stresses the importance of adhering to the standard of care and demonstrating tangible results from health interventions, physicians working in underserved communities with high rates of diabetes must seek out innovative ways to educate and engage patients.

Physicians should ensure that they have a support system in place when dealing with malpractice litigation.

Your overall goal is to stop a case before it's filed, but in the event that a suit is brought doctors most often settle.

Four experts discuss what they believe is in store for pain medicine in the coming years.