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Local Emergency Room Patients Fast-Forward Wait Time (Sort Of)
Through real-time feeds on digital billboards, social media outlets, and cell phone and Internet updates, some Central Florida hospitals have taken the guesswork out of the time it takes to be seen by a physician at local emergency rooms.
LYNNE JETER |
Taking the Bull by the Horns
Orlando Medical’s Ed Jimenez Tackles Turbulent Issues as President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
First item on the agenda: Coordinate efforts with medical leaders around the globe to mitigate the imminent H1N1 pandemic.
Second item: Write guidelines for treatment and research initiatives for the pandemic in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
LYNNE JETER |
Giving Patients an Icy Reception
Thermosuit® Improves Recovery Odds for Osceola Regional Heart Attack Patients
Kissimmee— Because it could improve their chances of a full recovery, the emergency room staff at Osceola Regional Medical Center doesn’t mind giving heart attack patients an icy reception.
LYNNE JETER |
How to Avoid Getting Caught in a Pricey Game
Insurance audits can raise the pulse of anyone working in the medical field, even when they aren't doing anything illegal.
Fear of an insurance company finding an un-dotted "i" or an un-crossed "t" can make your hands shake—the feeling you get when you're being pulled over by a cop. You know you weren't speeding, but you might get a ticket for something else.
MINERVA DEJESUS and AURIANA REYES |
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Lessons Learned
MGMA Online Guide Walks Through Operational Essentials
At the beginning of this year, Medical Group Management Association's Center for Research, with funding from United Health Foundation, began rolling out chapters of an online resource guide that outlines essential financial know-how for running an efficient practice. "Lessons for Financial Success" is open to everyone through the MGMA Web site (www.mgma.com) and takes the reader through valuable operational information in five chapters, the last of which has just been published.
CINDY SANDERS |
Beth A. Burns, DO
Other than a minor blip in 1999 as the calendar flipped to a new century, everything was going according to plan for Beth Burns, DO.
After earning a biology degree at Baylor University in Texas, graduating with honors from medical school at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, and finishing an internal residency program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., where she was named Internal Medicine Intern of the Year, Burns joined a private practice with her good friend, Valerie Lenox, MD, at Gulf Coast Internal Medicine in Biloxi, Miss.
LYNNE JETER |
Therapy for Injured Workers: the Goal is Return to Work
Approximately 3.8 million workers were injured while on the job in 2007. Many of those people suffered injuries that made it difficult or impossible to continue working. More than 40 percent of the injuries and illnesses were sprains or strains with back and shoulders being the most affected parts of the body.
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Why (Business People Think) Doctors are Stupid.
Is this is really a misconception? Of course. Doctors are not stupid; they're brilliant. Trained in pattern recognition, and absorbing and analyzing tremendous amounts of data, systematically, physicians come up with solutions that are most wholly appropriate for the patient.
Doctors are held to an extremely high standard. And they hold themselves to an extremely high standard; not only in terms of work ethic but also in terms of ethical treatment of their patients.
Mitchell Levin, MD, CWPP, CAPP |
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