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Recognizing and Dealing With Impaired Clinicians Part II - Treatment Options
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Medical licensing boards and clinical societies encourage (and most boards require) physicians to report colleagues reasonably suspected of not practicing safely and competently. Failure to report unsafe, incompetent, or illegally acting clinicians can seriously damage patients, the profession, and the doctor himself/herself. Good-faith reporting is generally protected from lawsuit.
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Taking the Leap - Becoming a Health Care Consultant
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Starting a health care consulting business involves more than expertise in your field: it takes business savvy, lots of financial smarts, excellent people and communication skills and marketing know-how. Consulting in heath care is one of the hottest trends in the market today, as more and more people appreciate the independence and flexibility it brings and the range of potential income that the business can generate. In this podcast Betsy Nicoletti, author of Physician Auditing Workbook and owner of Medical Practice Consulting, shares the strategies that worked for her, as well as mistakes made along the way.
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Medical Practice Startup Strategies with Michelle Wier of The Halley Consulting Group
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An interview with Michelle Wier, B.S. CMPE, of The Halley Consulting Group. Discussion includes finding the correct legal and business structure, necessary types of insurance coverage, typical physician to staff ratios, the importance of implementing and electronic medical record when starting up of a new practice, evaluating where your new practice will locate, the marketing mind-set of new physicians, recommendations for the new practitioner and resources available.
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Interview with Medical Blogger Dr. R.W. Donnell
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SoundPractice interviews Dr. R.W. Donnell of "Notes from Dr. RW" medical blog, a hospitalist in Northwest Arkansas. Discussion includes how and why Dr. Donnell started blogging, effects on him as a physician and person, evidence based medicine, hospitalists vs. non-hospitalists, complementary and alternative medicine, spiritual review of systems.
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Workplace Violence: Protecting Your Practice From an Epidemic
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From an article by Robert C. Calway, M.H.C.A., B.S., M.T.(A.S.C.P.) in The Journal of Medical Practice Management. Workplace violence, in the form of verbal threats and/or intimidation and physical aggression, is commonplace in medical practices today. The practice must be prepared to respond to this disaster in the same manner with which they prepare for responses to a medical emergency, fire, or loss of electricity.
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