Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Textbook & CD-ROM
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Danger Lurks Around With Every Signature!
The truckload of documents on my table every single day waiting to be signed. Some are prescription refills, other are papers from the scooter people and not to mention those requests for prior authorization. Now if you have the same story there is a lot of risk hiding in those papers.
No doctor has time to [...]
All Doctors should learn this important skill!
The days of Doctors’ reputation of having a bad handwriting are ending. You will not be writing anymore. Medicare is forcing all medical practices and hospitals to go paperless by 2012. That will be a revolutionary change in the way we practice medicine. There will be no more bulky medical records. You will not have [...]
How to negotiate with medical vendors.
How should we negotiate with Medical Vendors. When you have your own medical practice and you will have to buy medical equipments and or Medical Services, you will find salesmen and coming in droves to your medical office to sell you almost anything under the sun.
Any time that you have to buy an equipment or [...]
How to crack a tough clinical case
What to do when you are stuck with a tough clinical case? What if all labs and imaging that you do is not giving you an answer. You feel like a detective but not like Sherlock Holmes. Here are the ten commandments to solve a difficult clinical case.
1) THOU SHALL LOOK FOR A SINGLE CAUSE [...]
WHY SHOULD PHYSICIANS HAVE A WEBSITE? AND HOW TO GET ONE !
Technology is changing all around us. So is the way of doing business. More and more people are using internet to find what they want to find or shop. Patients used to search for doctors in the yellow book. That is all changing very fast. Now patients are using google and other search engines to [...]
Comforting the patients – is it a Doctor’s job ?
Several times in a day, physicians find themselves in a situation breaking bad news to the patients. At other times, physicians are informing patients about a preliminary results which needs further testing. And that further testing can lead to a potentially disastrous news. ( Or may be a good news ! ) How should a [...]
Why Documentation is Important ?
Just like the payors continue to get miserly to pay the doctors, the hospitals are facing such problems too. The video news content is worth watching. If you do not document a decubitus ulcer if present on admission, in your History and Physical, Medicare may assume that it developed in the hospital and not pay [...]
Six Must Read books for Physician Entrepreneurs
If you are embarking on a journey to start your own medical practice or business, then preparation is the key. I am listing six books every physician entrepreneur must read.They are the pillars of my tiny library. All of them may cost not more than $100. But the practical knowledge they provide will be worth [...]
Become the greatest Code Blue Leader of all times !
Everyone remembers the first Code Blue they had to lead. It is a surreal experience where everyone is freaking out and everything is overwhelming. It is the place where psychology meets technology. Mastering the art of leading a Code Blue team is an art. It lasts few minutes but those minutes define you as a [...]
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