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Tanked Homecare Futures: A Sales Failure
Homecare has taken another body blow. Announced future cutbacks coupled with a dismal presidential budget has cast a pall over homecare. Publically traded homecare stocks have tanked as investors now pull out of a sector that has previously been a bright spot in an overall gloomy market. And it’s our ...
Learning from Larry: “In the moment”
You know I fly a lot. This year I’m platinum USAir and gold Delta so I spend many hours on flights and could probably do the flight announcements myself if the opportunity presented itself. But let me tell you about one evening on a USAirways flight inbound to Columbia, SC ...
As a speaker, Dr. Dunaway can now have still yet another reason to nauseate audiences!
Ahoy! Now I will have a great new reason for audiences to feel nauseous when they listen to me speak! Join me with Patient Relations expert, Brooke Billingsley, to improve your physician practice business bottomline while cruising the Eastern Carribean Feb. 6-12, 2010. CME approved topics will include E&M documentation ...
Red Envelope Solution for Healthcare Reimbursement
In China, you can buy little red envelopes in many shops, including grocery stores, pharmacies, and even school supply stores. While some are inscribed with the characters indicating “double happiness,” (indicating the double happiness a wedding represents for two families), others simply translate as “big lucky” or “big successful.” They are ...
Learning from Larry: Possessive Pronouns
I’m often asked by leadership teams to speak to organizations, particularly hospitals, (to both hospital and physician staffs), about “taking ownership” of the hospital or organization they work with or for. Larry Murphy, a stellar USAirways flight attendant (more on Larry later), demonstrated “taking ownership” multiple times on my brief flight ...
“minding your beesness” A new category
On April 1, 2009 I became a beekeeper. Late spring last year we had a huge limb fall off an ancient oak into our driveway and onto our neighbor's porch. When I discovered the previously unknown HOLLOW limb was full of bees, I was fascinated. Jane kept saying, "Tray, quit being ...
How Wide is YOUR Strait of Separation?
I returned from a trip to China a few weeks ago. Our Guide, Rene, was wonderful and hit me with a bit of inspired wisdom more than once. In Shanghai, she described how a few sectors of the economy were driven by foreign investors, and with reference to one particular ...
You’ll Dry
I was in the garden, tending to my bees, (more on this to come), and it started to rain. And then it poured. But I don't mind rain after an experience I had camping with my son years ago. A group of high school kids were camping with an outdoor ...
Latest “Dot” of Healthcare… The “Nocturnist!”
Like most physicians, I get a steady stream of recruitment mail. Most of it is predictable and after a while, you can read between the lines. Whey they state the practice opportunity is in "God's Country," you can assume that generally means within 50 miles of the Canadian border... bring ...
Doctor Shortage? You do the Math!
Last week found me in the beautiful snow-scape of State College, Pennsylvania, speaking to the Pennsylvania Mountains Health Alliance, a consortium of 15 regional hospitals. There were a number of highlights... not the least included enjoying snow that we don't see much of in South Carolina, having a great dinner with ...