It's been a couple of months since Ivan Oransky left Reuters for MedPage Today, and I see that MedPage Today has started a new feature, which Oransky tells me is a product of contributions from the entire staff.
Around 10 a.m. every morning I now get an email from MedPage Today called Morning Break, which points back to a medical-news linkfest with tips from around the web. (Disclosure: My wife, Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, is a contributor to MedPage, but not to Morning Break.)
Today's edition features links to a blog post on medical errors, a study linking Middle East respiratory syndrome and bats, word on a conservative doctor joining Fox News as a contributor, and a California law allowing nurses and midwives to perform abortions. These are all interesting stories, and I'm not sure how many I would have seen elsewhere. Morning Break, so far, seems to be a good tipsheet for medical reporters looking for another source of story ideas.
MedPage Today is aimed at doctors and health pros, so some of the links in Morning Break deal with professional issues. One link from today's edition goes to a piece dealing with doctors' decisions to accept Medicare patients, and another to a piece on the Medicare physician fee schedule. I happen to find those stories interesting, too. And I suspect many medical reporters and science writers would feel the same way.
If you like Morning Break, tell Oransky, or say so below. And if you don't, well, you know where to find him.
-Paul Raeburn
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