How do you relate pain and suffering to someone? You can use hand motions like rubbing your forehead and say “Wow, I have a terrible headache!” But that only goes so far, the person you are communicating with has no idea how you feel. Maybe they have never even had a headache and haven’t…(Read More)
Everyone understands that time is money. All businesses want to sell as many products as possible in a day to cover expenses. If they are a service provider they want to complete as many services as possible per day, once again to cover expenses and hopefully make a profit. Where doctors are concerned, they need…(Read More)
How large is the medical malpractice problem in Illinois? How many people actually die because of physician or hospital errors? The answers to those two questions are “very large” and “too many.” Public hospitals in Illinois paid more than $180 million over the past decade for patient deaths at the taxpayer-supported institutions, a figure…(Read More)
New Information Sharing Protocols Designed to Reduce Mistakes An accountant visits his Internal Medicine physician for a routine check-up. It’s tax-time and the poor fellow is working around-the-clock. The doctor writes a prescription for an acid-blocking medication because the stressed out patient complains of acid-indigestion. The same patient…(Read More)
Georgia is a great state! There are wonderful cities and towns, friendly people, lovely natural sights and recreation. It is the 8th largest state by population, and the 24th largest by area. Georgia is growing, and getting better every day. “The Peach State” is home to some of the nation’s best medical schools and…(Read More)