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Podcast: Politics and Healthcare 2008
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In this 20-minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Qualtity, Efficiency, Profits discusses the current issues facing our representatives in Washington including -- his best guess on the 10.5% Medicare issue, the difference between national health insurance and single payer insurance, who are the key players to watch in Washington, the changes in DC that will have an impact on private practices, and how physicians and adminstrators can keep in touch with their representatives and how they can get involved on a local level.
http://www.thinkbusiness.md
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Interview with Ron Rosenberg, President of Practice Management Resource Group
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President/Founder of the Practice Management Resource Group. They discuss the business side of medicine, more sophisticated patients, customer service, the difference between primary care and sub specialties, working with doctors, consumer driven health care, the importance of teaching physicians-in-training the art of communication, health saving accounts, transparency and how patients will choose physicians in the future, electronic medical records, having the physician involved in understanding the business through some basic and fairly simple processes, and practice marketing.
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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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