Physician Productivity

Jennifer Frank, MD, reflects on how taking breaks helps her improve her productivity in all parts of her life.

Developing the mindset of a best-run practice can help your team address current challenges-and roll more easily with the ones that come your way in the future.

Strategies to help solo practice physicians step away from the office for a vacation, medical leave, or unexpected emergencies.

While we strive to heal patients and rid them of their diseases, those very efforts can be very traumatizing to patients. As doctors, we should take steps to minimize their ordeal.

When speaking with patients, it's important to use terms they will understand. 

Doctors are human and face all the same illnesses, injuries, and disasters that everyone else does. 

We need people to maximize their thinking at work, but there are numerous aspects of the workplace that inhibit thinking. Fortunately, brain science can shed some light onto why this occurs.

Multiple changes in the healthcare field are working synergistically to pull an increasing number of physicians into the bitter swirl of burnout.

The cure for docs who have seen too many government-induced healthcare acronyms? A heaping dose of alphabet soup. 

You're going to experience trying days and intense challenges, so having humor in your life is important.  

Physicians share how they manage work-life balance while having a meaningful career in medicine.

Decreasing documentation requirements leads to decreasing reimbursement for the same amount of clinical work.

Looking for a way to help yourself and your staff be more productive? Look no further than these five steps.

Non-clinical staff play an important role in ensuring a practice runs smoothly and provides high-quality patient care. Keep these tips in mind when assembling your practice’s staff.

There is recognition among traditional health care organizations that we need to change drastically and quickly in order to meet the needs of all our patients.

Non-physician providers can help lighten the load for physicians while improving patient care, practice efficiency, and overall effectiveness.

We are far from the point where providers can gather needed information from one place to safely and efficiently develop a treatment plan. But there is hope. 

Be aware that the way you present medical information to your patients has a strong influence on their risk perception and, ultimately, their decisions regarding treatment.

Although we often take pride in our constant busyness, being too busy can be a bad thing.

An app that gets patients to pick up their phone without giving them your personal number.

The commonalities between PAs and physicians far outweigh the few differences that we have.

Seven seasoned professionals offer some recommendations for new residents and those starting out at medical practices.

Negotiating with health plans is not about who you are or what you do. It is about fair compensation for what you deliver.

In order to reduce the incidence of clinical errors in judgment, physicians should be aware of cognitive biases and practice strategies to mitigate their impact.

Physician assistants can help physicians manage patients, their schedule, and work-life balance.

Stop always saying yes and reconsider how you are, or could be, spending time for the benefit of you, your co-workers, and your patients.

There’s no line item for being exhausted in a physician’s salary … or is there?

How to recognize-and overcome-the common thought process of overconfidence when it comes to practicing medicine.

While human contact is natural and banter is commonplace, be mindful of how words and actions are received by those with different perceptions.

A Lean Six Sigma concept can help medical practices boost patient satisfaction and experience by simply looking at who does the tasks required.