Sports medicine specialist Jason Smith, DO, is already clocking long hours as the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Health Board's new part-time medical director, according to The Toledo Blade.
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An employee at Carolina Orthopedics tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement on the practice's website.
Orthopedic surgeon David Bruce, MD, is helping produce medical gowns for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Hospital and Parkridge Medical Center, reports News Channel 9 ABC.
Lehigh Valley Physician Group in Allentown, Pa., is the most recent example of physician groups furloughing staff and turning to telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from cut .
CMS expanded the range of services that telemedicine can provide in a March 17 ruling, enabling physicians to see more patients through virtual appointments and ease the burden on emergency rooms and urgent care centers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Silicon Valley Orthopaedics is providing walk-in orthopedic services at its facility in Fremont, Calif., as the COVID-19 outbreak leads other groups to temporarily close, according to a March 26 announcement.
Mercy Clinic Orthopedics opened a walk-in clinic at its office in Fort Smith, Ark., the Times Record reports.
Atlanta-based Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics has been ahead of the telemedicine trend after implementing the technology one year ago.
Sports medicine physicians are in the middle of a conundrum as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates: Are the injuries professional athletes suffer considered elective surgeries or not?
Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health physician Cory Edgar, MD, PhD, was arrested after he intentionally coughed on other hospital employees, Eye Witness News 3 reports.