Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'doctors'
September 23, 2008
David Blaine has been upside down since yesterday, and today his medical team will be on hand at Wollman Rink to check in on their patient. There have been some concerns about what being in his position for 60 hours can do to the human body (like blindness!), so stay tuned for what's likely to be a dramatic yet reassuring press conference with the docs. Tomorrow Blaine ends his latest challenge with "a heart-stopping plunge......
Continue Reading "Blaine Still Hanging in There"December 28, 2007
There are worries that a proposed $50,000 surcharge on all MD's in the state could do irreparable harm to New York's health care community. The state's medical malpractice liability fund is underfunded, and state insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo is looking for ideas. Doctors unable to obtain liability insurance from commercial carriers are required to get insurance from a pool for high-risk doctors called the Medical Malpractice Insurance Plan, which charges doctors at least 290% the......
Continue Reading "New York Docs Feeling Ill Over Proposed Insurance Surcharge"
