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 [...]
Change Medicine Series: Pagers are an outdated technology !
Every doctor has a pager. A doctor may not have a stethoscope, but he will definitely have a pager barely hanging to his belt, waiting for a chance to interrupt the doctor’s life. But the question is: Do we really need pagers in the era of cell phones?
To answer this question, lets rewind our lives [...]
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 [...]
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