Physician Job Search: Tips and Advice
Since the physician job search is at its peak nowadays, I am posting a list of topics on physician job search, including physician employment contract etc. I hope summarizing them here will make it easy for everyone to access these articles. I am a physician myself and these articles are written without bias or conflict […]
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 […]
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 hard will you work after Medical Residency?
Since Childhood, everybody has chased the dream of having the workload lighten up once the education part of life is over. Same goes with medicine. Once into Medical School, we realize the amount of work we have to put in it. Every day Medical Students slog through various rotations, schedules, USMLE, reports etc. This list […]
Are you late for physician job hunt? Last Minute Strategies
It is almost July and most of the residents should have landed a physician job. If not, but you are mulling over several physician job offers — then you are still good to go. But if you have not done a single interview yet or worse if you have not started applying yet, then […]
Two Big Mistakes Graduating Medical Residents Make !
The two most common issues facing graduating medical residents are the ones that we will discuss in this post. As a graduating date is near, we all think about taking a break and also to postpone the medical board exams by an year or two. Why are these big mistakes? Lets find out. Let us […]
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 […]
Eight big mistakes medical residents make
We all went through the medical residency programs and did just fine. But there is always more that we could have learnt or done in the medical residency years. Medical residency is a great place to learn medical skills, as there is plenty of time to learn and lots of physicians willing to teach. This […]
Timing your partnership in the medical practice
Many a times, an inexperienced physician is excited to find an offer of physician job where partnership is offered after the first year. Now just because he is going to become a partner aka owner of the medical practice, is not the formula for success. Timing of partnership in a medical practice is very crucial. […]
Partnership in medical practice: Pros and Cons
Every graduating medical student has dreamt of owning a medical practice. It is the ultimate goal of becoming a physician. Why do most, if not all physicians want to own their practice. There are several reasons for that. 1) Physicians are intelligent and independent creatures. They became physicians in the first place to call the […]
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