“Docs are a competitive and chauvinistic breed. We love to needle and we have a culture of complaining that predates EHR and ICD-10, don’t you know. And whatever our specialty, we somehow feel the truth of these characterizations apply a little bit to all of us.”
- Jeff Brown, MD...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 42
“Can you imagine another group of professionals—whether they be attorneys, accountants or dentist— allowing themselves to be lumped together under terms like “legal provider,” “finance provider” or “dental care provider”? Unlikely. It’s so non-specific, and is used almost anywhere, including...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 41
“The physicians who are most respected in a community are often not the ones who do the fastest surgery, make the smartest diagnoses or charge the least. The dominant doctors are those that connect to each patient’s emotional flow and needs.”
- James C. Salwitz, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
"This is not me being a dinosaur and refusing to move into the future. We are so overwhelmed by the administrative burden that we forget to step back and ask, 'Why are we doing this?' "
- Isabel Hoverman, MD, discusses how administrative burdens and costs—including the...
The city of Manteca, California (population 71,900), some 70 miles east of San Francisco, has seen its share of economic shifts. Doctors Hospital of Manteca (DHM) has seen some changes over the years as well. Marla Terrell, CPMSM, the hospital's director of medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 10
If you are struggling with questions related to peer review, privileging, and other medical staff functions, an allied health committee may be the answer.
Are your medical staff meetings lacking the attendance and meaningful participation? Our detailed list of tips will help you to have medical staff meetings that are efficient and effective.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 38
“The healthcare environment dynamic is changing rapidly, as is the practice of medicine. Progress and change is inevitable, but not at the expense of what we have already achieved and learned over the years. To ‘fix healthcare’ we need to ‘heal physicians first.’ “
- Bhupendra O....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
"[A]s we enter into clinical practice, physicians face the burdens of documentation and regulatory requirements that eat into the time that we should be spending on building relationships with our patients, which contributes to an ongoing erosion of our compassion."
