Jon Carter

In our latest cartoon, one practice gets creative with added financial incentives for staff.

One physician finally succumbs to adjusting her work schedule to reduce burnout-sort of.

Physicians are stuck choosing between the lesser of two evils when it comes to payments and reimbursement.

Physicians have to jump through more hoops than ever to be paid. Is there an end in sight?

Telemedicine is convenient and easy, but that doesn’t mean it's for every practice. This practice found that out the hard way.

This physician attempted combining story time with his son with EHR pajama time and got mixed results.

This app allows physicians with neat handwriting to better align with their colleagues by transforming their notes into illegible chicken scratch.

Do you have patients with no access to transportation? Here's the potential answer to your problem.

WiFi is an attractive feature for guests in the waiting room. Just ask this patient who squatted on his practice WiFi network for months.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is something many patients struggle with during the holidays, Kris Kringle included.

If health insurance bonuses are attainable, don't tell Santa. He's been having trouble staying on track for years.

This doctor fears money may be leaving medicine, should more physicians be worried?

Adding too many ancillary services can turn a potential revenue stream into a nightmare for your practice.

This doctor finds out about a new type of practice payment model - an idea that's completely foreign to her. Third-party payers stay away!

This physician had a solid relocation strategy that allowed him to improve his home and professional life. Here's what you need to know to do the same.

This doctor went from being an average MD to an outstanding one, simply by moving across state lines.

To his physicians dismay, a patient pulled out all of the stops when asked to talk about his family history.

Miracle drugs may not exist in the truest sense of the term, but any drug that comes with an easy co-pay is a miracle drug in this doctors eyes.

What happens when a patient presents with a condition that there is currently no billing code in the system for? This doctor finds out the hard way.

This doc found out the hard way that medical coding for a single patient can be a cumbersome time suck.

Activity trackers can provide users with statistics on how active they have been, but the devices are too unreliable to help a physician in an exam room.

This physician has a clever way to ensure nobody can gain access to the files on his computer.

Doctors and their staff are vulnerable to computer viruses, one of the few things they didn't learn to diagnose and treat in medical school.

Having a short and sweet medical record is one way to make your doctor's job easier. This doctor found a patient that he especially loves.

It'd be nice to ask a new patient about their family history with malpractice lawsuits. Unfortunately, that's not allowed, as this physician finds out.

At least one doctor expresses his desire for malpractice reform to enacted, to put an end to frivolous lawsuits. Don't send in the clowns!

This physician enjoys charting so much she wants to share her passion with fellow staff members at her practice.

This doctor has been preaching teamwork at his practice for so long his employees decided to take their support for one another to a whole new level.

This doctor has an innovative way of keeping employees driven to practice medicine, while adopting a wholesome, team approach.

This doctor has figured out the perfect way to increase patient satisfaction at his practice. It involves offering a tasty beverage in the waiting room.