About us
2005
Your Ideal Opportunity
The key to creating your perfect job is to exploit your own special talents and
passions.
Job Loss
Call it fired, downsized or faced with the collapse of your practice. Whatever
the cause, if you didn’t plan it, unemployment can be scary. Take a look at the good, bad, ugly, and—yes—beautiful consequences of finding yourself out of a job.
Practice Size
Determining the ideal size of your practice—and how to increase or control growth—isn’t an easy task. Here are some tips to keep you on track.
Leadership
Before you give the standard, knee-jerk denial, read on to test that answer.
A New Health-care Paradigm
Does professional sports offer a model for improving health care? Maybe, but the
doctors will have to make some adjustments.
Job Search
By Barbara Alden-Wilson
Navigating the journey from residency or fellowship to permanent employment may
seem overwhelming at first, but knowing what you’re after and how best to find it can make it easier.
Bariatric Medicine
With costs to treat obesity-related illnesses soaring and the outlook grim for
the nation’s children, forward-looking physicians see a bright future for bariatrics.
Job Satisfaction
The surveys and polls call it “physician satisfaction,” but the old-fashioned label is “happiness.” Are doctors still finding it at work, and if not, can they?
Equal Respect for Women
By lori herring
Women may equal men in numbers in medical school classes, but some female
physicians still experience a gender gap—in pay, advancement, and treatment from nurses. The good news: Some females
perceive no discrimination at all.
Prompt Payment
Confusing language, inconsistent enforcement of payment laws, and constantly
changing coding requirements have physicians tearing their hair out. Take steps
to minimize the hassles and maximize your payments.
Pharmaceutical Reps
Pharmaceutical reps and physicians have always had a symbiotic, if cautious,
relationship. With production demands on doctors and new ethical guidelines
affecting how reps detail drugs, the old face-to-face may be a thing of the
past.
Dismissing a Patient
The Right Way to Say Goodbye (html)
By Cynthia Myers
Discharging a patient is never easy and could lead to charges of abandonment,
but keeping certain problem patients is also a liability. Know the law
surrounding patient dismissal and the steps to take to safeguard your practice.
Non-English Speaking Patients
English is no longer the language for a large percentage of physicians’ patient populations. Here’s how to remain calm and effective when you feel you’re suddenly practicing in unfamiliar territory.
2004
NOV/DEC 2004
Impaired Physicians
Saving Troubled Physicians (html)
What do you do when a colleague is a danger to himself or others? This
step-by-step guide helps you get an impaired doctor in treatment and back on
the job while protecting patients.
CON
By John Zicconi
Physicians free of CON restrictions contend specialty hospitals can provide
better outcomes for patients and lower costs. Community hospital leaders
counter that the laws are necessary to level the playing field. Is it
innovation or greed?
SEPT/OCT 2004
National Guard and Reserves
Doing Double Duty (html)
By Christine A. Hinz
Physicians in the National Guard or reserve units not only care for injured
soldiers, they serve and protect their country, both at home and abroad.
Disaster Recovery
Rescuing Your Practice (html)
If Mother Nature were less than kind to your practice, would you be able to
bounce back quickly enough from the punch?
JUL/AUG 2004
Ethics Audit
Conduct an Ethics Audit (html)
By Barbara Alden-Wilson
Gauge the moral fiber of a practice before you join. Asking the right questions
now may prevent sticky situations in the future.
Hospitalists
Citing shorter stays, reduced costs, and better quality of care, hospital-based
physicians have skyrocketed from obscurity to mainstream. IS this the right job
for you? And what does the trend mean for patients and other physicians?
MAY/JUN 2004
Hiring a Colleague
Make a Great Catch (html)
By Christine A. Hinz
When hiring a colleague, it’s not enough to respect clinical skills and have similar philosophies about
caring for patients. You have to connect on that hard-to-define level called “fit.”
Improve Practice Revenue
Thriving in Lean TImes (html)
With costs rising continually and reimbursement in a holding pattern, staying
viable is more of a challenge now than ever. By combining operational
improvements with new revenue streams, however, practices can boost the bottom
line and flourish.
MAR/APR 2004
Buying In
You’ve paid your dues, worked hard for a few years, and impressed the partners. They
offer you a piece of the practice. Now what?
Writing Non-Fiction Books
Publishing a non-fiction book is the dream of many physicians, and while joining
the ranks of authors may be more difficult than you realize, it’s not impossible, either. Tips from one doctor/author to get you started.
JAN/FEB 2004
Caring for Illegal Immigrants
By John Zicconi
Providing medical care to illegal immigrants is a multi-billion dollar problem
in the United States. Welfare reform laws have forced aliens to use costly
emergency rooms, and politics have stalled potential solutions. What can be
done to care for immigrants without bankrupting our system?
Medical Sidelines
Doctors–yes, doctors–are finding they want second jobs to supplement their incomes and stimulate
their enthusiasm for medicine these days.
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