A Physician's Role in Dismissing Staff
While dismissing a staff member from your practice can be unpleasant, it is vital that you, as the physician leader, be involved.
Dress Codes: Yea or Nay in Medical Practices?
Our office has a dress code, but we like to have fun as a pediatric practice. So when it comes to formal rules, are you strict or do you allow silly?
The Dilemma of the Tablet-Enabled Physician
Good news: My practice is switching to an iPad-enabled EHR. Bad news: I may never truly be off-duty again since I'll always be connected.
Collaborate or Compete With Retail-Based Clinics?
Retail clinics are here to stay. Increasing your patients' access to your medical office will help direct them back to your practice.
Why I have Serious Doubts about the PCMH Model
I hate to think that medicine will become like a cookbook, because there are so many things that just don’t fit inside the box.
How I Respond to Vaccine-Reluctant Parents
The “vaccine discussion” is always challenging. Here's how I respond to the common vaccine-related concerns that I hear from my patients' parents.
A Physician's 8 Resolutions for the New Year
Last year I shared my New Year's resolutions for 2014. Here's how I did, and what I resolve to accomplish this year at my medical practice.
How Charitable Giving Could Improve Medical Practice Morale
My medical practice donates to various organizations. Recently, I had an idea about how charitable giving could lead to a happier, more professional staff.
Why I'm Thankful for My Difficult Patients
In the past, every time I saw these patients on my schedule, I just wanted to run out of my medical practice. Now I am grateful for the challenges they present.
Dealing with Deadly Diseases: 6 Ways to Prep Your Practice
With all the media coverage of Ebola and enterovirus D68, there are several things your practice can do to ease patient and staff concern. Here's where to begin.
Three Practice Management Responsibilities for Doctors
As a physician, take some time to learn a few medical practice management principles to more fully support your practice manager.
A Physician's 8 Ways to Boost Patient Payment Collections
Here are some strategies my medical practice has developed to get those unpaid patient balances off our books.
Five Easy Ways to Make Your Medical Practice More Patient Friendly
Take the time to sit in your medical practice waiting room and exam rooms and look at them from a patient’s point of view. You will be glad you did.
Ending the Physician Relationship with Pediatric Patients
Pediatrics is unique in that physicians have to push patients out of the nest so they can fly on their own. Here's how one doctor does it.
This Mother's Day Apply Your Mom’s Advice to Your Medical Practice
From minding your manners to eating your veggies, here's how a mother's advice can help you be a better physician.
Release of Medicare Physician Pay a Sign of the Times in Healthcare
The release of Medicare payments to physicians is just another step toward greater financial accountability for all physicians, no matter who reimburses your practice.
Determining Whether to Extend Professional Courtesy to other Physicians
Traditionally, physicians do not charge each other for medical care. Unfortunately, this belief does not seem to be well understood by all doctors.
ICD-10: More Questions than Answers
As a physician, I will be the champion for the ICD-10 transition and keep staff calm. But even I have some serious reservations about what lies ahead.
Physicians: Improve Yourself, Your Medical Practice in 2014
From learning about ICD-10 to having more patience with difficult patients, here is one physician's list of resolutions for this year.
Why Won't Urgent Care Clinics Consult With Me About My Patients?
Seamless care of patients requires good collaboration between medical care locations.
Is It Compassion or Bad Business Judgment?
Staff members with compelling life difficulties can derail your practice goals. Just make sure that you don't let your compassion cloud your better business judgment.
Physicians Need Business Training to Run their Practices Well
My fellow physicians, we are a really smart group of people that have not received the proper instruction for the business world.
The New Face of Drug-Seeking Behavior
Drug-seeking behavior has evolved into patients wanting new medications for older ones they've self-prescribed or demanding medications I don't feel they need.
Stopping Staff, Physician Tardiness at Your Practice
Addressing patients who arrive late is one thing, but when members of your medical practice staff, including physicians, are tardy, it's time to take action
Dealing with Late and No-Show Patients
Patients who show up late, or not at all, can cause major problems at your medical practice. Here's how to address the issue and prevent future instances.
Vaccinations for Children a Must at My Medical Practice
Here is why my pediatric practice requires 100 percent vaccination for patients and does not accept alternative schedules from parents.
Patient Copays: To Bill or Not to Bill?
You can't order a coffee today and pay tomorrow, so don't let patients leave your medical practice without some kind of payment arrangement.
There Will Always Be Helpers in Medicine
The events of the Boston Marathon make me reflect on my own disaster response experience and my gratitude for all the 'helpers.'
My Journey to Running a Private Practice
A medical practice is quite similar to a patient - it needs care for problems and attention to details to keep it healthy.