New bill relaxes physician requirements for boxing, wrestling events
The General Assembly passed a bill making it easier for a physician to serve ringside at certain sporting events, and extending the period a promoter has to declare any earnings. Before the bill passed, physicians who examine boxers, martial artists or wrestlers before they enter the ring must have held a medical license in Virginia […]
The wedding day
When Alondra Rodriguez considered which school to attend for pre-med, she found herself puzzled by Old Dominion University — and why it didn’t have an affiliated medical school. “U.Va. has their own med school,” she thought. “Why don’t they just do that?” Rodriguez, who already had a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Liberty University, ultimately […]
In critical condition
For about a decade leading up to 2013, Dr. James Min was one of three physician-owners of a private practice in Prince William County, Bristow Run Family Medicine, working as a doctor by day and a finance manager by night. “With the complexity of health care, billing, contracting with insurances, all these kinds of things, […]
A severe case
When Staunton native Emma Harrison decided to pursue medicine, her grandfather asked his primary care doctor of several years, Dr. Katie Dunbar, to talk to Harrison about her profession. Harrison, then an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, met with Dunbar, a physician at Carilion Clinic Family Medicine – Waynesboro, to discuss family medicine. […]