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Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

Welcome to Five Minute Practice Fix, featuring instructional videos by physician and business of medicine expert Neil Baum, M.D. He has written a book, What’s Going on Down There? He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine. which has served as a guide for women’s health.

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Bathrooms “R” Us

Physician's Practice

All the staff agreed that it was not a representation of the care we provide our patients. When the doctor is late for the clinic, and patients are waiting for more than 30 minutes, it is helpful to have a staff member enter the reception area (not the waiting room) and provide patients with an estimated arrival time for the doctor.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

Focus on providing optimum patient care and financial success will follow Rules are made for a reason and should be followed. Focus on providing optimum patient care, and the financial success will follow. Breaking them can lead to problems, fines, and even incarceration. This same concept applies to any medical practice.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . So when I make a cartoon, usually I’m sending it to a few people before it’s ever seeing the light of social media, to make sure it’s not going to come across as insensitive either to patients or to my fellow providers. You never want to be punching down.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. Prior-auth forms?

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

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.