A Letter to Hospital Administrators
Dear Hospital Administration: So, you bought a practice! How exciting! Pat yourself on the back. Now, quickly get into “war
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Dear Hospital Administration: So, you bought a practice! How exciting! Pat yourself on the back. Now, quickly get into “war
Continue readingIt is amazing how you can live with something so horrible and train yourself to ignore the terror contained in
Continue readingEven though I am not an employed doctor, I keep in regular communication with hospital-employed doctors in our community. Doctor-owned
Continue readingSome things you can’t put back into the box once you open it: Nuclear Weapons, Poison Gas, and Social Media.
Continue readingActual conversation in the office this past week.
Continue readingThis animation is not funny. Unfortunately, it is all true. Hospital price transparency is a scam. When hospitals post pricing
Continue readingBefore you read further, read Doug’s recent post about statins:https://authenticmedicine.com/2022/03/the-statin-wars-this-is-going-to-be-fun/ To summarize a key point from his post: Statins may
Continue readingNow, more than ever, it is difficult to find a good Primary Care Doctor. On the other hand, you can
Continue readingIt happens every few months. The hospital brings in a procedure based specialist or surgeon and promotes the doctor as
Continue readingDementia is a tricky thing. Highly functioning people often get an awful score on the usual mental status exams. On
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Continue readingThis month is paper cut awareness month. Seriously? Okay…not really. But, it SHOULD BE! Paper cuts are often disregarded as
Continue readingWe received a document from Medtronic about an insulin pump device that has the ability to be hacked, injuring the
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Continue readingIt’s time to talk about nurses. The field is in crisis. Fortunately, a stellar team of hospital administrators is here
Continue readingWhat’s happening? Hospital administrators are increasing their numbers at a terrifying rate! Doctors and nurses are leaving patient care to
Continue readingYesterday morning, our hospital’s EPIC system went down. It was a partial outage which only impacted those of us outside
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Continue readingWe got our quarterly bonus check from United Healthcare. For our excellent service and cost efficiencies, we are receiving a
Continue readingI have had it with everyone calling out sick! I guess no one wants to work these days. In my
Continue readingIt’s funny what happens to prices when somebody else is mandated to pay the bill. We discovered this little truth
Continue readingHang in there everybody! I strongly believe this will calm down sooner than we think and it will all be
Continue readingI don’t care what they say. Next year is going to be a good year!
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