Buy the Practice, Employ the Doctor & Pray The Doctor Has Good Patient...
Hospitals today are aggressively buying physician practices in their local markets. Why? Hospitals want to solidify their referral base for inpatient and outpatient referrals as well as increase their...
View ArticleHere’s Why You Should Ask Your Doctor To Show You Any “Alerts” In Your...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) make a lot of sense. Ideally they capture, store, and report on all the pertinent information that’s floating around out there concerning your health. One of the...
View ArticleFirst Principle of Patient Engagement & Patient Portals– Be “Relevant” From...
One of the biggest challenges facing health care providers today when it comes to engaging patients is RELEVANCE…or more specifically the lack of it. I say “engaging” because any one presenting in...
View ArticleDeath By A Thousand Cuts – Physicians’ Surprising Response To My Wife’s Lung...
This is a true story…. My wife was about to celebrate her 10th anniversary as a Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer survivor (a pretty remarkable feat) when it happened. It started out as a cough. We...
View ArticleWe Stop Being A “Person” And Become A “Patient” When We Do This …
… We Walk Into The Exam Room At The Doctor’s Office. We all play many roles in life …. spouse, employee, sibling, parent, friend, customer, and so on. Each of these roles brings with it its’ own unique...
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