The Physician's Guide to the Business of Medicine
The Physician's Guide to the Business of Medicine

Author: Jeffrey T. Gorke

Publisher: Greenbranch Pub Llc

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9780981473802

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Nationally known healthcare consultant Jeffrey Gorke translates his 20 years of experience into a winning playbook for joining, starting or running a "dream" practice. Packed with tips, insights and action-oriented tools, this fast-paced guide helps readers rapidly master the language, players, management structures and culture issues and use what they've learned to ask all the right questions in identifying, seeking and landing the absolute best job. Learn how to size up location, compensation, work-life balance, and the freedom to practice medicine! NOTEWORTHY FEATURES - A comprehensive, step-by-step check list makes sure you cover every question in the practice-selection process and lets you do revealing side-by-side comparisons of all the practices under consideration. - Practical tips and reality checkpoints on what to expect in the private practice setting. - Instant financial mastery: Spreadsheets and graphical presentations make it easy for readers to evaluate business and financial data to learn what's really happening in a practice — and what questions you'll need to keep asking if you decide to join. - Clear action steps: How to evaluate factors such as a practice's location or culture and what plusses and minuses to look for in terms of managers, consultants, and business structure. - And a Bonus! Illustrative real-life anecdotes from the medical practice trenches.

Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making

Author: Alan Schwartz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107320062

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Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision making process. This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field. It considers issues of patient goals, uncertainty, judgement, choice, development of new information, and family and social concerns in healthcare. It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation.

The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens
The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens

Author: Andrew N. Wilner, MD

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-12-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1483494667

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The Locum Life: A PhysicianÕs Guide to Locum Tenens, is an insiderÕs guide to locum tenens, the world of temporary physician positions. In 20 clearly written chapters, the author articulates the nuts and bolts of The Locum Life. Physicians will learn how to find their first locum tenens assignment, run their own business, travel, and achieve the work/life balance of their dreams.

Practicing Excellence
Practicing Excellence

Author: Stephen C. Beeson

Publisher: Fire Starter Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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So much of a medical organisation's success rides on the leadership, conduct, and performance of its physicians. How does a health care organisation engage its physicians to lead by example? And how does a physician, in the midst of 25 appointments, 30 phone messages, hospital rounds, and the details of managing a clinical practice, do what needs to be done to foster satisfaction and loyalty among patients? This book eloquently answers these questions. Beeson has created a brilliant guide to implementing physician leadership and behaviour that will create a high-performance workplace built on collaboration, commitment, purpose, and making a difference in the lives of the patients it serves.

The Final Hurdle
The Final Hurdle

Author: Dennis Hursh

Publisher: Advantage Media Group

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1599323133

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Get Your Career Off on the Right Track! Everything Physicians Need to Know About Employment Contracts COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS *Dangers of productivity compensation *Common incentive compensation formulas - what needs to be included *Benefits to look out for in addition to your compensation *How to determine if you are "disabled," and how the employer should NOTbe able to make this determination *What the employer can, and can't negotiate as far as benefits *Stark law traps, and how to avoid them RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS *What's really important in restrictive covenants, and what isn't worth negotiating over *Minimizing the impact of a restrictive covenant *How you can be released from a restrictive covenant *Negotiation strategies in buy-outs of restrictive covenants CALL COVERAGE *The language you must have DEFINING WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU *Patient contact hours expectations *What flexibility an employer will demand THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT *Issues with hospital and managed care credentialing, and how to work around them *Grounds for termination *"Without cause" termination issues OTHER ISSUES IN AGREEMENTS TO WATCH OUT FOR *Medical record issues *Assignment of location of service *Budgetary weasel language to avoid *Malpractice issues in common provisions MALPRACTICE INSURANCE *The types of coverage, and the significance when you leave *Need for "tail coverage" *How to minimize the devastating cost of "tail coverage" PRIVATE PRACTICE ISSUES *Time to ownership *Concerns with "guaranteed" ownership *Costs of the buy-in *Methodologies for determining the buy-in, and the pros and cons of each *Why a cheap buy-in may not be in your best interest *What provisions are absolutely vital in regard to future ownership

Choosing Autonomy
Choosing Autonomy

Author: Randy Bauman

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780997447200

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This leading edge book is a guide for unwinding an unhappy hospital employment relationship and reestablishing a private medical practice. Designed for employed physicians (and their administrative staff and advisors) who are searching to regain independence or control over their practice of medicine.

Physician's Guide to Medicolegal Practice
Physician's Guide to Medicolegal Practice

Author: Mohammed I. Ranavaya

Publisher: American Medical Association Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781622028856

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Physician's Guide to Medicolegal Practice is a practical guide to the critical information, principles and practices essential for physicians, doctors and other professionals who are contemplating entry into the field of independent medical examination (IME), expert witness and forensic opinion work, or looking to enhance their skills within this field. It bridges the gap between reading about the IME business and actually carrying out the work. This comprehensive work consists of 10 chapters that cover broad topics from all aspects of medicolegal practice including performing independent medical examinations, writing record and file review opinions, handling expert witness opportunities, and dealing with personal injury claims, court systems, and legal professionals ethically and professionally. The art of medicolegal report writing and scientific causation analysis, which are essential components of a successful practice for any medical or scientific disciplines where IME and expert witness opinions are needed by workers' compensation systems, casualty insurers claimants, treating physicians, and attorneys, is also discussed in detail. The second half of the book discusses deposition and courtroom testimony skills any independent medical examiner/expert witness needs, and warns of common challenges and pitfalls encountered when dealing with the legal system, including other issues arising out of IME and expert witness practice, and recommends preventive strategies. Finally, a robust appendix provides sample forms and templates to help you get started in this business. Features and Benefits Ten concise and easy to read chapters present the information needed to begin and grow a medicolegal practice. Practice pearls throughout each chapter highlight the main and most salient points. They are the perfect resource for the reader who needs a quick refresh of this guide. Thorough definitions of common medical and legal terms provide readers with the medicolegal vocabulary they need. A robust appendix contains the 10 most important samples of forms, letters and documents that can help a reader launch a new or enhance an established business. For physicians, this book teaches skills absent from medical training or residency programs and rarely covered in journal articles.

The Physician's Guide to Investing
The Physician's Guide to Investing

Author: Robert M. Doroghazi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-11-03

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1592599532

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I met Bob Doroghazi when he dropped the first draft of his manuscript of The Physician’s Guide to Investing: A Practical Approach to Building Wealth at my office. I will have to admit I was a bit skeptical: a physician writing a book on investments? During that first meeting with Bob, it became evident that he had been a successful physician and a successful investor, so I agreed to take a look at the book. I was in for a pleasant surprise. Bob’s manuscript was easy to read and had specific advice useful to physicians, interspersed with lots of practical tidbits for any investor. Having written three college-level finance and investment texts, I was excited to be in on a project aimed at offering practical investment advice to a more general, yet specialized, audience. I had high expectations for the book and am pleased to say that I believe Bob has delivered a book that every physician interested in building wealth and protecting assets should read. Bob is a straight shooter; he tells it like he sees it in his book. Some doctors might be indignant on reading his statements, such as “Physicians sometimes have no idea of their limitations. This type of arrogance and ego can result in investing disaster.” However, if you do have these limitations (and most professionals, even college professors, do), then reading Bob’s book will help you recognize situations in which they can lead to poor investment decisions.

Physician’s Guide to the Laboratory Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases
Physician’s Guide to the Laboratory Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases

Author: N. Blau

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 364255878X

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This second edition of The Physician's Guide provides paediatricians and other physicians with a unique aid to help them select the correct diagnosis from a bewildering array of complex clinical and laboratory data. Delay and mistakes in the diagnosis of inherited metabolic diseases may have devastating consequences. The guide, which includes a CD-ROM, describes 298 disorders which have been grouped into 35 chapters according to the type of condition. Within each group of disorders, chapters provide tables of pertinent clinical findings as well as reference and pathological values for crucial metabolites. Relevant metabolic pathways and diagnostic flow charts are included. There are three indices to make the book as user-friendly as possible.