by Michael Sopher | Feb 4, 2016 | Relating to Your Patients
In our recent post on how to hire and retain staff, we emphasized the importance of workplace culture – the “secret sauce” that attracts employees and customers to a business. Nowadays, having a company culture that emphasizes excellent customer service is crucial,...
by Michael Sopher | Jan 21, 2016 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls
The health care job market is booming. In 2015, the industry added an average of 40,000 jobs a month, almost double the 2014 rate, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). What does this mean for your medical practice? To hire and...
by Michael Sopher | Dec 3, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
In the U.S., with a population of 300 million, patients undergo around 15 million nuclear medicine scans, 100 million CT and MRI scans, and almost 10 billion laboratory tests each year. “Often, these are fishing expeditions,” writes Atul Gawande, New Yorker staff...
by Michael Sopher | Nov 5, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Patient Engagement
Most doctors have encountered them at some point: a patient’s complaining spouse, controlling daughter, or aggressive son-in-law who questions every care decision. Dealing with difficult caregivers is a common issue. There are 93 million family caregivers in the U.S.,...
by Michael Sopher | Oct 8, 2015 | Emerging Technology & Trends
As we’ve discussed before, burnout is a problem for as many as half of all doctors in the U.S. It’s not hard to understand why: on average, doctors work 10 hours more a week than other professionals, with nearly 40 percent working 60 hours or more per week, according...
