I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Michigan Department of Community Health released an announcement today that the state is facing a “serious shortage of physicians” as primary care doctors retire, leave the area or leave the practice.
The supply of available doctors in Michigan is decreasing, according to findings from the 2008 Michigan Department of Community Health Survey of Physicians. About 62 percent of physicians providing patient care in Michigan report their practice is full or nearly full, compared to 42 percent of physicians in 2005.
There are other serious issues affecting the supply of physicians in Michigan. The number of new primary care physicians has just barely kept pace with the number of primary care physicians leaving the workforce in the past few years. And the percentage of physicians who plan to discontinue practice within the next 10 years is increasing.
The statement notes that an even bigger problem than the lack of physicians is the distribution of physicians within the state, with doctors concentrated on larger population areas and rural areas often having little availability of medical practitioners. Dr. Gregory Holzman, chief medical executive for MDCH, said, “The mal-distribution of physicians is a major national problem. We can continue to produce more doctors, but if we fail to address the distribution issues, we will continue to have access problems.”
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