"We have been mentored by most of our role models to use a single tool for handling our emotions in medicine, and that is to compartmentalize them—to put them in a box, and get the job done. No one bothered to mention … that there is no box big enough to practice medicine long term using just...
The combined system would focus on access and affordability, improving clinical care, growing its academic model and contributing to the region’s economy.
The use of locum tenens physicians in the U.S. has nearly doubled to 48,000 since 2002, according to a survey conducted by healthcare staffing company Staff Care.
How do you make OPPE and FPPE more than just an item on the regulatory compliance checklist? Although it has been 10 years since The Joint Commission released its ongoing and focused professional practice evaluation standards, organizations are still struggling to develop meaningful processes...
Minutes must be recorded accurately and must cover the topics discussed and any conclusions that were reached. Minutes should be succinct; summarize the important content of the discussions, outlining major points of the presentation and discussion; and correctly report all conclusions,...
Physicians may not be as eager to retire as the industry has been led to believe, according to a recent survey of more than 400 physicians age 50 and older.
There are going to be trade-offs with any age thresholds that are set — start too early and do lots of testing that turns out to be unnecessary, start too late and miss some physicians whose competence has declined — but we can't let this difficulty keep us from moving forward.
