Given the many recent developments in healthcare, physician salaries remain an important focus point. President Obama has placed tremendous focus on quality and outcome-based payment for services rendered. Yet, there remain many physicians whose salaries are guaranteed. The trend however is shifting towards incentive-based physician … [Read more...]
Physician Salaries – Guaranteed or Incentive-Based?
Physician Job Interview – Essential Tips for Success
Interviewing for physician employment opportunities can be stressful, as your entire candidacy for what may in fact be the ideal job is on the line. Knowing that a good or bad interview can directly affect the job outcome, physicians often worry, and stress out about the interview - and understandably so! In my years as a practicing physician, as … [Read more...]
Careless Medical Errors Add to Poor Patient Quality
I have touched on the subject of hospital-acquired errors in recent blog posts, because quite frankly, I believe America has bred some of the most talented and capable physician service providers, who are better than this. It has become a fact that many people who are need of patient care, fear what could happen during a hospital stay, as much if … [Read more...]
$1 Billion in Health System Reform Money Invested for Improved Patient Safety
The Obama administration, is working with hospitals, physician services providers, healthcare industry organizations, and the Department of Health and Human Services, for the purpose of improving patient safety. The Obama administration is investing $1 billion in health system reform money to contribute to these efforts, according to the American … [Read more...]
What Happens when Doctor Becomes Patient?
Dr. Itzhak Brook found out, firsthand, the challenges some patients are faced with, during hospital stays, when he found himself on the opposite side of the spectrum, in regards to physician services. And the experience had humbled him so much that he advocates patients' rights. The article, "A Physician’s Experience as a Cancer of the Neck … [Read more...]