Pressure point; with stress-related claims on the rise, some disability carriers are reassessing physicians's insurability
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Disability insurance income for physicians in family practice, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery and anesthesiology is either costing more or being restricted by two major insurance companies. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America is reducing the benefits and raising rates and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co is also charging physicians in those categories higher rates. Insurance companies cite increased stress-related claims in the four categories as cause for their changes in policy.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1993
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Disaster plan in action: Oklahoma medical teams respond well to terrifying time
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Oklahoma physicians express pride for the timely response of medical personnel to the disaster caused by the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City on Apr 19, 1995. Doctors who went to the scene include a surgeon who amputated the leg of a woman trapped in the wreckage. Hospitals were prepared to treat victims, but after the first survivors were rescued, the majority of victims proved to have been killed.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1995
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