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2009
Pick the Perfect Practice
Tailor your Search (html)
By Jon vanzile
Choosing a practice can be one of the most important—and daunting—decisions of your career. Take the guesswork out of getting started and begin
your search with confidence.
Practice in Your Home Town
You Can Go Home Again (html)
By deb kincaid
Sometimes there’s no place like home to find the job that’s right for you. Four physicians found that returning to their roots provided
career satisfaction for them and service for the communities they love.
The Road Best Traveled
Job Search 101 (html)
By Lester A. Picker
You’re at the edge of realizing your dream: your first real job as a physician. But do your homework. In today’s market, it’s not hard to find a job—the trick is to find the job that’s right for you.
Make the Most of a Site Visit
Do a Site Visit Right (html)
By karen childress
Make the most of this chance to visit a new community by planning ahead of time
what you want to know about the practice, the key players in the medical
community, and what the area has to offer. It can be a fun few days, but
remember, it’s still an interview.
2008
The Whole Truth
By JULIE STURGEON
Serving as an expert witness can be lucrative and exciting,
it isn't always easy.
House Calls Return
Endangered No More (html)
By marcia travelstead
Whether it’s a convenient service for travelers or wealthy clients or a replacement for
office visits for the elderly or homebound, house calls are making a comeback.
Sustainable Medicine
Green Goes Mainstream (html)
By DAVID GOODMAN
Sustainable medicine, once the passion of fringe physicians, has become a
popular, responsible way to practice. Proponents are finding it’s not only good for the environment, it’s good for business.
Young Chief of Staff
Hail to the Chief (html)
By Anayat Durrani
Young physicians who lead their medical staffs sometimes fall into the role and
others seek it. Regardless, they juggle clinical and administrative tasks and
grow as they serve their colleagues and hospitals.
Physician Employment Update
Employment—The Sequel (html)
By Karen Edwards
Everything old becomes new again, so goes the adage. It seems it could be true
for the health-care market now as physician practices and hospitals integrate
in ways eerily familiar to—and yet decidedly different from—the 1990s.
Automation in a Solo Practice
Office automation is spawning a growing number of solo practitioners, and these
pioneers are helping to break the trail for newcomers.
Fixing a Wrong First Impression
When you’ve gotten off on the wrong foot—whether with a supervisor, a co-worker, or a patient, it’s both important and possible to get the relationship back on track. Simple
steps to patching things up and moving forward.
Nation’s Health Care System
The Picture of Health Care (html)
UO interviews four health care experts
It’s impossible to escape national scrutiny of the nation’s health care system during an election year. Here’s a snapshot of the issues and ideas you’re likely to hear bantered around the water cooler in the coming months.
Behavorial Health Centers
Psychological Symbiosis (html)
In-house behavioral health providers give patients real-time access to
counselors, improve care for mental health problems, and save physicians time.
It’s the ultimate win-win arrangement.
The Pressure to Look Successful
By Sally Herigstad
The pressure to look successful can come from many directions but if not reigned
in, it leads to stress and possibly financial disaster.
Palliative Care
Palliative Care Medicine (html)
A Complete Patient-Centered Package. In a growing specialty where quality of
life outweighs quantity, physicians are finding satisfaction and patients’ and families’ needs are met in a way that shows medicine at its holistic and humanistic best.
Avoiding Mistakes with Recruiters
By Therese Karsten, MBA
Mistakes Physicians Make with Recruiters. Learn from the mistakes of others so
you don’t ruin the perfect practice opportunity. To deal effectively with in-house
physician recruiters, mind your manners, pay attention to your communications,
and don’t forget that you’re always being evaluated.
Volunteering Physicians
Missions of Mercy (html)
By Lori Herring and Tyson Volkmann
Volunteer physicians find great satisfaction—and a wealth of opportunities—in using their talents to help Third World patients. It's a working vacation
you'll never forget.
Llama Trekking in New Mexico
On the Trail to Enchantment (html)
Trekking in the New Mexico mountains might just be the perfect escape from a
hectic practice. Plus, you get a llama to carry your load.
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