“[I]t’s important to completely unplug from the practice and experience regular ‘down time.’ This can be as small a change as a regular power nap, a walk outdoors, or a call to a friend at lunch, but can also mean bigger changes like not working at home and making yourself unavailable while on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 5
“If we’re to truly reform healthcare, we can’t limit improvements to finances. We need to renovate how human beings in this system relate to one another.”
- Jeff Kane, MD, discusses improving communication between physicians and patients in a post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
"Do we have to demand to see the credentials and then call the college of every dentist, doctor, and mechanic we go to or is there a reasonable expectation that the business itself is … doing due diligence?”
- Patrick Burns, co-executive director of the Taxpayers Against...
Finding a lack of resources and tools that provide direction on clinical documentation for physicians, Joseph Cristiano, MD, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, set out to educate himself about the...
The First District Appellate Court of Florida (the "Court") recently overturned an order compelling a hospital to turn over occurrence reports, holding that by operation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
Although the fear of lawsuits runs deep in many facilities, MSPs are very rarely named in these lawsuits. "The bad news is, you're most certainly going to get sued as an organization," says Dan Mulholland, attorney with Horty, Springer, and Mattern, P.C., in Pittsburgh,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
“When engagement scores are low, physicians take little pride in the hospital, would not recommend it to a job-seeking colleague, and believe that the hospital’s mission and vision are not in sync [with] the needs of patients.”
- Richard Gunderman, MD, discusses low...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 3
“I don't think it is the demands of being a physician—responding to a code, considering a puzzling diagnosis, or holding a hand through the night—that leads to burnout. I think it is all the non-physician things we do that are slowly eroding our profession and our passion.”
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 2
“The whole idea is of being present in the task you are in, the relationship you are in, being mindful of what's going on right then instead of feeling the pressure of yesterday or the uncertainty of tomorrow.”
- Sandra Argenio, MD, discusses using compassion to combat...
