Psychiatrist Karl Gathof MD passed away in Green Valley on June 19, 2018. He was 73. Gathof was born July 27, 1945 in Kahl am Main, Germany. He began his medical career in Canada graduating from the University of Toronto…

Many states may reconsider laws restricting nurse practitioners’ ability to treat patients as the U.S. faces a growing shortage of primary care physicians. “If all States were to allow [nurse practitioners] to practice to the full extent of their graduate…

The University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health released a list of statewide opioid resources. These are free materials, services and resources to Arizona organizations working on substance misuse, prevention, intervention and treatment. The list of resources is available…

“From Sick Care to Health Care: Lifestyle Medicine and the Prevention of Chronic Disease,” will be presented Wednesday, Sept. 5, 6-7:15 p.m., at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson. The 75-minute presentation will include time for questions…

The Pima County Health Department has released its August 2018 Communicable Disease Report. You may view the report by clicking the link below.   PCHD Communicable Disease Report Aug. 2018 (2)

Citing the increasingly high cost of treating patients who suffer an opioid overdose, Tucson Medical Center has sued Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Cephalon Inc., Purdue Pharma and a host of other pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors. The lawsuit was filed…

Jane Orient MD, PCMS member and Executive Director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeon has authored the fifth edition of Sapira's Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis.  The latest edition discusses the patient interview and the physical examination in…

David W. Jaskar, MD, long-time rheumatologist, internal medicine and geriatric practitioner, passed away on August 6, 2018  He was 79. Jaskar was highly respected among his peers and served as chair of the Pima County Medical Society Bioethics Committee for…

Monica Kraft, MD, PCMS members, professor and chair of the University of Arizona Department of Medicine, the Robert and Irene Flinn Endowed Chair of Medicine, and deputy director of the UA Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, has…

Pima County President Roy Loewenstein MD addresses the physician shortage in Pima County and the residency assignment process in a column appearing in the August 20 Arizona Daily Star. To read the article you can click here. Below is a link to…