Your spouse or family member becomes ill, you have children you want to raise, or you get an administrative job. As a result, you think, “I’ll put my medical license on hold, become inactive or go active retired because the fees are less, and it will help me take care of whatever needs to happen…
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Six Things Not To Do When Leading Physicians
“Clinical leaders of tomorrow must possess a strong background of medical and managerial expertise to develop and to shape policies in ways that ensure the highest level of patient care in years to come. If this does not occur, ultimately, physicians will become technical consultants in a dysfunctional health-care community that they have inadvertently helped…
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‘You Killed That Patient’
Brittany Maynard, a death with dignity advocate, chose to end her life in early November. The news did not get as much attention as it should have, possibly because Ebola was the biggest issue of the weeks that surrounded it. Her self-directed death by pills in Oregon, one of the few states in the U.S.…
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5 Important Health Conversations That Started From Ebola Epidemic
Please understand that I am not happy about the existence of Ebola, but it has brought more awareness and debate to several important health care issues in the U.S. Here are my top five: Ebola has brought attention to workflow and EHR. The initial reports that critical information did not flow from the registration/triage desk…
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