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Avoid 'greased pig' strategy

...back to the gate, he would wriggle free from our tenuous grasp, and the whole squealing escapade would start afresh.As a physician, I can tell you that doctors are very much like that greased pig ? or at least, the federal government views us that way...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2013-05-23/avoid-greased-pig-strate
Physicians office assistant Physician seeks front/back office assi...

Physicians office assistant Physician seeks front/back office assistant. Associate degree preferred...billing systems. Quickbooks, a/p g/l, Ability to work with physician in patient rooms. Check in/out patients, etc. Send replies...

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Radiation oncology advances personalized medicine

...findings, but Kong said her review of the literature and an animal study showed that is not the case.What the scan allows the physician to do is target areas of the tumor that are the most active and resistant with more aggressive therapy and perhaps lessen...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-21/radiation-oncology-advances-
Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics | The Augusta Chronicle

...medical care available and leads a team of physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists...and family-centered care. All its physicians are board-certified or board-eligible...College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics physicians travel to more than 90 satellite clinics...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/topics/organizations/hospitals/medical-college-geor
Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics | The Augusta Chronicle

...medical care available and leads a team of physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists...and family-centered care. All its physicians are board-certified or board-eligible...College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics physicians travel to more than 90 satellite clinics...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/topics/organizations/hospitals/medical-college-geor
Georgia Regents Medical Center | The Augusta Chronicle

...medical care available and leads a team of physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists...and family-centered care. All its physicians are board-certified or board-eligible...area, Georgia Regents Medical Center physicians travel to more than 90 satellite...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/topics/organizations/hospitals/georgia-regents-heal
Sumter hospital guilty of submitting $39 million in false Medicare claims

...contracts to ensure that they would get referral fees associated with those physicians' procedures, according to a report by The Item of Sumter.Paying physicians with part of the referral fees a hospital receives creates an illegal kickback...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-09/sumter-hospital-guilty-submit
Ga. hospitals lining up to offer residencies

...The goal is to have more opportunities for newly graduated physicians at the expanded Georgia Regents University in Augusta and...their residency, so state leaders hope to reduce Georgia's physician shortage by offering additional residency opportunities...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-05-14/ga-hospitals-lining-offe
Students who can't get into GRU can attend East Georgia State

...Officials worried that setting admissions standards for the merged school at the ASU level would tarnish the reputation of the physicians and dentists graduating from the new Georgia Regents."The East Georgia partnership reflects that mission, and it's a...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-05-14/students-who-cant-get-gru
Hospitals face consolidation, collaboration, University CEO says

...consolidation of services, with different hospitals defining the scope of their level of care and then collaborating with the same physicians that also use other hospital systems for higher levels of care."For example, in cardiology, all the hospitals might do...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-16/hospitals-face-consolidation