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Interview with PZ Myers of Pharyngula.org
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews University of Minnesota - Morris Developmental Biology Professor PZ Myers, who is also the founder of the hugely successful science blog, Pharyngula.org. They discuss the role of blogging for science and medicine, using blogs to interpret heavy science for the lay public. The discussion then turns much deeper and heavier to topics such as the erosion of public education, Francis Crick, the conscious being, trust in medicine, peer review, split brain experiments and science as religion.
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Marketing for the Medical Practice - A Discussion with Ann Teliczan of the Allie Group
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews Ann Teliczan from the Allie Group about marketing medical practices and physicians services. Topics include difficulty in convincing physicians to pursue marketing, why marketing is necessary, the advantages of Web sites, Web site costs, the process to select a marketing group, physician use of email, physicians use of blogs and marketing costs.
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Improving Accounts Receivable Performance
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In this podcast Ms. Davis-Jacobsen describes steps that the "better performing" practices take in order to improve AR, she reviews the components of an effective AR monitoring system, describes statistics and useful benchmark comparisons that are available to medical practices and she summarizes the most important steps a practice can take to improve accounts receivable performance.
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Hot Issues for Hospitals - and What that Means for Physicians
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Jennifer Bever, FACHE, the Director of Education for Sg2 discusses hot issues for hospitals and the impact of these issues on physician and physician practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Ms. Bever covers Medicare payment reductions and surgical services, pay-for-performance, projected physician workforce shortages, what makes physician-hospital partnerships successful, and very specific strategies on how physicians can work more effectively with hospitals. Jennifer Bever also discusses when and how physicians should "do it themselves."
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