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Informal Consultations: Do New Risks Exist With This Age-Old Tradition? by Toni Hendel, Esq., R.N.,
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From the article in The Journal of Medical Practice Management. This podcast cites three court decisions involving physicians who provided an informal or "curbside" consultation. The cases demonstrate the medico-legal implications of physicians engaging in informal consultations. The author then discusses the growing risk of liability for physicians who participate in this traditional practice.
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Podcast: Streamlining Workflow in the Medical Practice
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The author of the best selling book, Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine discusses in this 20-minute podcast the hot topic of "Workflow" in the medical practice, the most important issues to increase efficiency, how the economy is bringing these workflow issues into the spotlight, the low-down on doctors and their schedules, how can staff really implement change, how to adopt inexpensive tech tools and why quality is essential in the discussion about workflow. <br /><div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.capko.com/">www.capko.com</a></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://shopmpm.com/Take_Back_Time_Management_Medicine.asp">http://shopmpm.com/Take_Back_<wbr></wbr>Time_Management_Medicine.asp</a> <br /></div>
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Podcast: How to Hire and Keep Good Employees for Your Medical Practice
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In this 20-minute podcast, Dr. Walter West from www.practicemanagementacademy.com, discussed practical details of hiring and recruiting good employees for your medical practice. He covers the following: Surprisingly, why money is NOT the most important thing an employee looks for in a job, how to effectively use your office manager or administrator in the recruitment process, how to run staff meetings that work for you, how to go about finding and keeping good people, how to motivate employees to do more than just show up, the importance of employee reviews (and terrifically smart strategies to make the process more palatable).
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How to Stay on Top of Practice Finances with Judy Capko
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Judy Capko, President of Capko & Co., based in Thousand Oaks, California and the author of the best-seller, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices is interviewed by SoundPractice.net. In this 20 minute podcast, Judy reviews the concept of monthly strategy meetings in a medical practice, how to get doctors and others in the practice to buy-in to such meetings, how to best structure meetings to share performance data, and the most important issues and benchmark data to cover on a regular basis. She also discusses how to keep focus and momentum up for such strategy sessions.
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Recognizing and Dealing With Impaired Clinicians Part 1 Recognition and Reporting
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Medical licensing boards and clinical societies encourage (and most boards require) physicians to report colleagues reasonably suspected of not practicing safely and competently. Failure to report unsafe, incompetent, or illegally acting clinicians can seriously damage patients, the profession, and the doctor himself/herself. Good-faith reporting is generally protected from lawsuit.
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