Despite my background as a traditionally trained M.D. in western medicine, I think I’m pretty tolerant of diversity in healthcare. I do know enough to know that none of us knows enough to have patient treatment all figured out. Actually, I’m more than tolerant… I’m downright accommodating for a wide variety of non-western healing sciences. […]
Category Archives: doctors
A Plauseable Healthcare at 35,000 Feet
09-Jul-07This is not what I intended to write for today.
This week I’m attending my annual National Speaker’s Association meeting in San Diego and I was working on the article I planned to write on the USAirways flight from Charlotte to California. With ipod music piped through noise reduction headphones I was typing away when Russell […]
Permission to Change
06-Jul-07I spoke to a very close friend last week about his contemplation of a major professional change. Bill has been a lawyer for almost twenty years and has grown beyond his job. He isn’t necessarily unhappy with his job, but he yearns for a change of pace and of location. His approach/avoidance problem is that […]
One of my blog readers shared an email he received from Doctors For Medical Liability Reform about Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News broadcast from a maternity ward in Philadelphia, (my Medical School Hometown), days before escalating medical liability concerns contributed to forcing the ward to close it’s doors. The story also goes on to tell […]
The EMR movement has been touted to promote savings in healthcare dollars by eliminating redundant care with access to records, a way to compare performance of healthcare by standardization and uniformity, and with a seamless network to share data nationwide, despite ongoing concerns about privacy and who will have access (authorized and unauthorized), and for […]
A few months ago I was speaking for a hospital TAP, (trustee, administrator, physician), executive retreat in New Orleans. One outstanding dinner was at Antoine’s but it was the food for thought that still lingers from a conversation with a physician and his wife, Donna. Donna’s a lawyer. This doctor/lawyer discussion was memorable and insightful.
There is an […]
I’ll be giving a live audio conference on July 11, 2007 on my Risk Based Coding TM algorithm with Oakstone Publishing. Because I’m traveling to speak in California and later in Ohio, I’ll actually be in a hotel room in San Diego. So if you’d rather SEE and HEAR it live, shoot me an email […]
Shi**y Jobs Fertilize Future Prospects
21-Jun-07Monday morning I keynoted the Georgia Assoc. for Home Health Agencies (GAHHA) annual meeting on St. Simons Island. During lunch, I had the chance to have great conversation with Kay Smith, RN. Kay and her husband Hal were co-recipients of  the Captain C. C. Dudley Award for “outstanding leadership and dedication in pursuit of excellence in provision of Home Health services […]
Physician as Entrepreneur
13-Jun-07“How can I do what you did?” is a frequent question I receive from physicians after a speaking program. They’re not asking about how to become a speaker or consultant, but rather how to explore other interests and create revenue streams from new businesses. “I’m so frustrated by medicine, I’d love to do something different, […]
Let me introduce you to my friend Jeffrey Segal, MD, FACS. Jeffrey is a neurosurgeon and has developed a business called Medical Justice. Essentially, Jeffrey converts Tort (malpractice) law into Contract law. Allow me to overly simplify. There are three parties: a physician, a patient, and insurance company, (technically “companies”).
Old Tort Model: The patient […]
