Posted on December 18, 2008 by pookiemd
I am fascinated by how we physicians communicate (or not) with each other and with our patients. As a medical student and resident NO ONE ever thought about how physicians communicated with patients. We were always so focused on nailing the disease process and treatment that the patient was nearly ignored. I don’t think I [...]
Filed under: Communication, Efficiency, Health Care Delivery | Tagged: Communication, doctor, Efficiency, family practice, health care, how to communicate, internal medicine, MD, physician, primary care | 5 Comments »
Posted on November 28, 2008 by pookiemd
All right, Dr. Practice Owner, here are more tips to keep you practice’s head above water in these turbulent times:
Share staff. If you have an excess of staff, could they be shared with another office rather than laid off? You get to retain a valued staff member, the staff member keeps their job, and everyone wins.
Enlist [...]
Filed under: Efficiency, Increasing Revenues | Tagged: banking, doctor, internal medicine, MD, physician, primary care, save money, staff, tax planning, Tightwad | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 3, 2008 by pookiemd
As promised, I will turn my laser like focus to the task of “fixing” primary care. I will examine both micro and macro ways of doing this, coming up with to do lists that physicians can implement in their practices as well as global suggestions that will take shifts in health care policy. (Which only we [...]
Filed under: Health Care Delivery, Increasing Revenues | Tagged: billing, black tuesday, coding, doctors, health care, MBA, MD, physicians, primary care, reimbursement, revenues | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 22, 2008 by pookiemd
I am married to an electrical engineer that loves to fly around in a small airplane. Because I hang out with him, I’ve been forced to observe the intricacies of not crashing into other planes and landing safely. I’ve learned a lot.
Pilots have a check list for everything. Plane manufacturers include an entire book of checklists [...]
Filed under: Efficiency | Tagged: aviation medicine, check lists, doctor, DVT, Efficiency, EMR, health care, hospital, MD, medicare, no pay, physician, pressure ulcer | 3 Comments »
