Medical Director vs. Supervising Physician: Understanding the key differences Florida medical practices must know
The healthcare industry often uses the titles Medical Director and Supervising Physician interchangeably, but they’re quite different. A Medical Director is usually a position created and required by a specific law. In contrast, a Supervising or Collaborating Physician is one that a nurse practitioner or physician assistant is required to have on file with their respective licensing boards. And those two roles (Medical Director vs. Supervising Physician) have very distinct responsibilities. The role of a Medical Director is generally found in specific laws connected to licensed healthcare entities (e.g., skilled nursing, health care clinics, home health agency). The role of a Supervising...
How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold
Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments Back in 2014, a woman with advanced cancer pushed Adrienne Boire’s scientific life in a whole new direction. The cancer, which had begun in the breast, had found its way into the patient’s spinal fluid, rendering the middle-aged mother of two unable to walk. “When did this happen?” she asked from her hospital bed. “Why are the cells growing there?” Why, indeed. Why would cancer cells migrate to the spinal fluid, far from where they’d been birthed, and how did they manage to thrive in a liquid so strikingly poor in nutrients? Boire, a physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan...
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Americans die earlier at all wealth levels, even if wealth buys more years of life in the US than in Europe
Wealth can buy health – but only to a point. marekuliasz/iStock via Getty Images Plus ~~~~~ Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. We also found that while the wealthiest Americans live longer than the poorest, the wealth-mortality gap in the U.S. is far more pronounced than in Europe. We are a team of health policy researchers who study health systems and how their performance compares across countries. We analyzed survey data from 73,838 adults ages...
Clinical trials at Memorial Cancer Institute deliver hope to cancer patients
For more than a decade, cancer has been Judith Hetlage’s constant companion, always present and threatening. What began with a diagnosis of synovial sarcoma, a rare tumor in the connective tissue of joints, ultimately resulted in cancer cells spreading to her lungs. “I felt like that was the death sentence,” she said. But a fortunate thing happened on the way to what Hetlage thought would be her demise. Memorial Cancer Institute began an innovative clinical trial for TCR-T (T-cell Receptor Therapy), an immunotherapy that harvests a patient’s T-cells, genetically modifies them to recognize a specific protein within cancer cells, and infuses the cells back into the person’s immune system to...
