by David Shifrin | Oct 5, 2018 | Clinician Issues, Healthcare Industry
It’s a different world these days in healthcare. Organizations of all kinds are trying to figure out how to deliver better care while making the finances work with entirely new payment models. We saw this most recently in the news that UnitedHealth Group is dropping...
by David Shifrin | Sep 4, 2018 | Clinician Issues, Entrepreneurship, Health:Further Playlist
With the increasing demands of clinical practice and competing administrative priorities on clinicians’ time, health innovation has moved forward without adequate clinician input, often failing to effectively improve patient outcomes or meet the needs of care...
by Suneel Dhand, MD | Jun 29, 2018 | Clinician Issues
The doctor-patient interaction is the absolute core of clinical medicine. Maybe I’ll go much further: it’s the core of healthcare in general. I always try to remember, whenever I’m ever feeling frustrated with the system, the crazy bureaucracy—and of course, the...
by Suneel Dhand, MD | Jun 20, 2018 | Clinician Issues, Healthcare Industry
There are so many theories out there about what we should or shouldn’t be doing with our complex and fragmented healthcare system. We are facing a perfect storm of factors: an ageing population, a huge increase in chronic disease, new and expensive treatments, and...
by Suneel Dhand, MD | Jun 7, 2018 | Clinician Issues
VIDEO It’s a scenario that any practicing physician will be familiar with. You get a call that a patient or family member is “very upset” or “angry” about something. I’ve written previously about this topic, and some basic communication techniques for dealing with...
by Suneel Dhand, MD | May 31, 2018 | Clinician Issues, Patient Advocacy
This post was originally published as “Dear patient, how to be pushy with your doctor“ Seeing a physician in a healthcare environment is an anxious and somewhat intimidating time for many patients. It’s easy for physicians to forget this as we go about our...
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