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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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Podcast: A Hope and a Prayer
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These years have seen a burgeoning of the science of medicine. Diagnostics and therapies that were nearly unimaginable have become commonplace. The best of American medicine is indeed among the worlds best. Though we spend a greater portion of our GDP on health than any other nation, there remains as yawning a gap in access to these wonderful services. In this Editorial from The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Marcel Frenkel, MD, MBA, provides a snapshot of American medical practice in 2005.
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Negotiate Contracts Carefully With Part-time Doctors by Daniel M. Bernick, J.D., M.B.A.
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Medical practices will increasingly need part-time physicians and indeed are becoming aware that many doctors prefer or require only part-time employment. This podcast sketches the emerging demographic patterns fueling this trend and discusses some of the contractual details to consider in terms of salary, benefits, liability coverage, and noncompete covenants.
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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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