Rebecca Fox, MD

While dismissing a staff member from your practice can be unpleasant, it is vital that you, as the physician leader, be involved.

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?

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.

Retail clinics are here to stay. Increasing your patients' access to your medical office will help direct them back to your practice.

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.

The “vaccine discussion” is always challenging. Here's how I respond to the common vaccine-related concerns that I hear from my patients' parents.

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.

My medical practice donates to various organizations. Recently, I had an idea about how charitable giving could lead to a happier, more professional staff.

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.

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.

As a physician, take some time to learn a few medical practice management principles to more fully support your practice manager.

Here are some strategies my medical practice has developed to get those unpaid patient balances off our books.

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.

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.

From minding your manners to eating your veggies, here's how a mother's advice can help you be a better physician.

The release of Medicare payments to physicians is just another step toward greater financial accountability for all physicians, no matter who reimburses your practice.

Traditionally, physicians do not charge each other for medical care. Unfortunately, this belief does not seem to be well understood by all doctors.

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.

From learning about ICD-10 to having more patience with difficult patients, here is one physician's list of resolutions for this year.

Seamless care of patients requires good collaboration between medical care locations.

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.

My fellow physicians, we are a really smart group of people that have not received the proper instruction for the business world.

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.

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

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.

Here is why my pediatric practice requires 100 percent vaccination for patients and does not accept alternative schedules from parents.

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.

The events of the Boston Marathon make me reflect on my own disaster response experience and my gratitude for all the 'helpers.'

A medical practice is quite similar to a patient - it needs care for problems and attention to details to keep it healthy.