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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you. What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do?

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

After learning that the insurance company (trying to play doctor) recommends a generic drug that is less effective and has more adverse effects because it does not carry the more expensive drug on its formulary, this gives the doctor cause for concern for their patient. What is it that they see? What is their first impression of your staff?

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. Props a prayer book under their chin to keep their mouth closed. This is Eric Widera. It just depends.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And I was terrified.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. We should be completely ashamed that this is going on in our hospitals. Yeah my life totally sucked because I was double booked.

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