Muara Teweh!

Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.

The survey, released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry.

A U.S. shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025 was predicted at last week’s American Medical Association annual meeting.

In the survey, the foundation sent questionnaires to more than 150,000 doctors nationwide.

Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they’d consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies. » Read more after the jump →

Terri Boeskool, a registered nurse who relocated to Okinawa with her Marine husband in June, said finding a job — let alone a nursing job — has been tough.

“I didn’t think it would be as hard as it’s been,” she said. “As soon as we got orders I started researching Web sites.”

Boeskool was one of several to show up Tuesday at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa’s job fair to recruit civilian nurses.

There are 10 positions open, said Capt. LaFrancis Francis, a registered nurse and the hospital’s director of Nursing Services,

The hospital currently has 144 active-duty and civilian nurses assigned to its staff, although about 10 of those are deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba, Francis said.
» Read more after the jump →

AUSTIN, TX, — (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Sport Clips, the national hair care franchise for men and boys, has partnered with 360training.com to deliver online continuing education courses to its licensed cosmetologists in select states across its 588 locations across the nation. The online courses provided will provide an efficient and cost effective method for licensed stylists to stay current with mandatory continuing education obligations.
The Sport Clips “Virtual University” is comprised of a catalog of courses powered by 360training.com which covers subjects critical to today’s practicing hair stylist. Some of the course titles offered include:

– Teaching Methodology — Teaches the current or aspiring beauty school
teacher different learning methods and personality types to best manage the
classroom setting.
– HIV Sanitation — Covers all aspects of safety and sanitation
including HIV as related to the cosmetology industry.
– Easy Way to Become Successful in the Beauty Industry — Provides
learners with a “personal cheerleader” motivating them to achieve goals,
visualize future goals, careers in the salon and spa industry,
understanding apprenticeship programs, selecting employers, interview
techniques, and much more.

“Sport Clips believes very strongly in promoting education among our industry schools and by investing in a convenient and affordable method of continuing education for our stylists, we are in the best position to help them further their careers with us,” stated Julie Vargas, Director of Career Opportunity for Sport Clips.
360training.com and Sport Clips will expand upon the online course offerings to provide options for both continuing education and industry professional development. For more information about online courses mentioned in this announcement, visit: http://sportclips.360training.com.

San Francisco based Health Support Systems, Inc (HSS) today announced the release of a substantial upgrade to its “Health Monitor” online wellness and disease management portal. Users can now access Health Monitor from a mobile phone and receive alerts by SMS text messages.

For example, Health Monitor now allows a diabetic user to update his Sugar, BP or Lipid parameters from a web-enabled mobile phone (WML & XHTML are supported). The phone access also provides quick health profile reports, and allows medication and other reminders to be received by SMS text messages. Health Monitor indicates if the patient’s levels are out of range, and provides coaching on corrective action that can be taken.

HSS helps individuals manage their health through a combination of self-monitoring, education and qualitative analysis. Users also have access from any PC or laptop web browser to other powerful features of the Health Monitor system like charts, graphs, risk analysis, drug search by brand, generic or symptoms, disease search by name or symptom, and management of diet, » Read more after the jump →

Western Governors University is now offering its Future of Nursing Scholarships to prospective nurse leaders, nurse managers and nurse educators. These scholarships are designed to help working nurses earn a master’s degree online to become educators, managers, and leaders in various healthcare settings.

The annual awards full-time undergraduate students accepted to Sierra Nevada College. Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, and demonstrated leadership ability. An essay must be included with application packet. Recipients are required to provide service to the College. Number of awards and award amount may vary.
» Read more after the jump →

Scientists who have studied the genome of the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) say their comparisons to related viruses offer new evidence that the virus infecting humans originated in bats.

The analysis tracing the viruses’ paths through human and animal hosts counters assertions that SARS was eradicated in 2004 when thousands of palm civet cats in China were identified as the original source and killed in an effort to eliminate the risk of new outbreaks.

According to this new analysis, humans actually appear to be the source of the virus found in those civets, a wild game animal considered a delicacy in southern China.

SARS infected more than 8,000 and killed more than 900 people worldwide during a nine-month outbreak that ended in the summer of 2003, according to the World Health Organization. No human infections have been reported since early 2004. » Read more after the jump →