We work very hard every day to give each patient the individual attention and care they need, and it takes just one negative experience to taint the visit. Each step toward self and group awareness helps each of us along the way and improves outcomes...
Music benefits patients’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. The use of music therapy has been effective in various settings, including hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers.
Healthcare faces simultaneous declining reimbursements and rising overhead costs. As a result, physicians’ incomes are losing ground. The challenge becomes figuring out how to be both more efficient and smarter at achieving productivity goals.
Physicians are drowning in regulations; guidance recommendations from federal agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission; and constan...
Graduate medical education provides significant value to institutions, and it is worth examining in detail the manners in which this occurs. The better we outline its added value in hospital systems, the better we can adjust the strategic plan of our...
Impostor syndrome is a common psychological phenomenon that makes individuals feel that they are fakes who will be exposed as frauds. Research suggests that it is more likely to occur in high-achieving individuals, healthcare professionals, and leade...
Over the past few decades, the reimbursement rates for Medicare have been decreasing steadily. Although some studies have previously evaluated trends in reimbursements in other fields, a comprehensive evaluation of geographic monetary reimbursement t...
Healthcare in the United States continues to face myriad challenges post-COVID, and institutions are at risk of organizational decline. A. O. Hirschman, one of many economists who have studied organizational decline, outlined several responses to org...
