This is my column in this month’s EM News. If you’ve ever been present for the instillation of a new Electronic Medical Records system, you’ll understand. And if you are outside medicine and think the idea of electronic records is … Continue reading
Using different EMR can be challenging. Here are some insights for locums workers. http://www.bartonassociates.com/2013/03/14/play-nice-in-the-emr/
This is my March EM News column Silly Scripting Games Our nurses will soon have ‘scripting’ guidelines for their interactions with patients. This is apparently widespread in many industries. The idea being, patients will be more satisfied with their … Continue reading
Here’s the link to my January EM News column on the symbiosis between emergency medicine and hospital medicine. Text follows. http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2013/01000/Second_Opinion__The_Hospitalist_s_Wing_Man.8.aspx Dear hospitalists, This is just a note to say that we, in emergency medicine, appreciate you. Like all of us, … Continue reading
Dear readers, Below is a letter from one of my dearest friends to his hospital administration. This year, the administration has mandated Influenza vaccination. Short of a few accepted exemptions, it is a requirement for continued medical staff participation by … Continue reading
This is my column in this month’s Emergency Medicine News. In Medicine, Atlas endures. For now… http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2012/11000/Second_Opinion__Atlas_Endures___For_Now.6.aspx Most modern American are familiar with the classic political novel, Atlas Shrugged. Love or hate it, the novel had a great impact on … Continue reading
This is my column in the October edition of Emergency Medicine News When I was a resident physician, I had the coolest classmates ever. We worked together, laughed together, learned together and many of us stay in touch to … Continue reading
This is my column in last Sunday’s Greenville News, about the peril of customer satisfaction surveys. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120909/OPINION/309090011/Customer-satisfaction-surveys-their-limits?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s&nclick_check=1 Customer satisfaction is quite the rage these days. Many stores and restaurants, many professional offices, hand out surveys, or ask customers to log … Continue reading
Here’s the link, text below. http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2012/09000/Second_Opinion__Speak_Truth_to_Charting.7.aspx I remember a short lecture I received in my medical officer’s course, as I joined the Air National Guard around 1988. The room was full of young medical students, physicians, nurses and other health-care … Continue reading
I am an emergency physician in private practice. My partners and I are a corporation, and we contract ourselves to one facility. As such, we are small business owners. In the current economic and politicical climate, my views on Obamacare … Continue reading