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Medicare Advisers Recommend Payment Cuts To Many Free-Standing ERs
by Michelle Andrews April 17, 2018Enlarge this image Free-standing ERs tend to have lower standby costs than hospital-based facilities that have to be ready to treat dire…
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How to pick a probiotic? Did you know that in 2012 3.8 million adults and 300,000 children were known to be taking…
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In early April 2017, a cover of The New Yorker depicting four medical providers sparked a movement within surgery. Women surgeons claimed…
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Here’s what’s wrong with time-based billing in the hospital
by David M. Mitchell MD PhD April 17, 2018Consider this hypothetical addendum to a hospital discharge summary: ”ADDENDUM @10:56 a.m: In considering the accurate billable discharge time involved in this…
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Physician well-being must be the standard of medicine
by Dianne Ansari-Winn MD MPH April 17, 2018I’ve interviewed many doctors on my podcast The Doctor’s Life. They share their stories of how they came to medicine and how…
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Shortly after the publication of “Independent practice: Both nurse practitioners and physicians should be outraged,” the nurse practitioner (NP) leadership responded with…
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Humans need human touch Patients sometimes need a shoulder to cry on. When I say that, I normally mean it on a…