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Interview with Medical Blogger John Grohol Psy.D. of Psychcentral.com
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews Dr. John Grohol who operates the mental health Web site psychcentral.com/blog/. Topics include medical blogging, effects of blogs on the doctor-patient relationship, the state of the doctor-patient relationship, transparency, views of mental illness in America, the effect of Katrina on mental health and medical practitioners use of the Internet and blogging.
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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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Managed Care Contracting, Top Considerations
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Susan Childs, FACMPE, of Evolution Healthcare Consulting, in this 20-minute podcast, discusses the most important aspects to consider when negotiating a managed care contract, how to convey the value and culture of your practice to insurance companies, the threat to terminate a contract (should it ever be done?), the most important contract language to address and strategies to use to keep up with the timeline of your contracts.
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