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How to get paid if your patient passes on
“That doctor-patient relationship is a very precious relationship, so you don’t want to mix that financial aspect of providing care with the...
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The top tax breaks that physicians use
“You want to maximize your retirement contributions,” says Mark Steber, the chief tax information officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. “If you...
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12 steps to closing your practice without problems
“Many don’t think about compliance issues, patient abandonment, or accounts receivable that they need to keep open to collect from billing, which...
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Service dogs help veterans with PTSD lead better lives
“These dogs pick up on PTSD symptoms and come over and press themselves against you, push their faces into yours, and give you those big puppy dog...
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Seeking help for burnout may be a gamble for doctors
Disclosing burnout resulting in being “ostracized, penalized, and ultimately ousted,” is the rule rather than the exception.
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Your patient bequeathed money to you: Can you accept it?
“To reject these gifts would be a slap in the face to the patient, [but] where it gets more ethically cloudy is when a gift is very substantial...
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Domestic violence in health care is real and underreported
Tasked with screening for abuse, medical professionals often struggle to recognize their own experiences of domestic violence and rarely ask for...
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One in five doctors with long COVID can no longer work: Survey
A U.K. survey shed light on the lingering effects of long COVID on more than 600 chronically ill and disabled doctors with the condition.
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Q&A: What to know about the new BA 2.86 COVID variant
BA 2.86 is a subvariant of Omicron, but according to reports from the CDC, the strain has many more mutations than the ones that came before it....
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Poor sleep and chronic pain prove pesky bedfellows
Two methods used by torturers – pain infliction and sleep deprivation – harm people in ways that also are experienced by many patients with pain...
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Could a malpractice insurer drop you when you need it most?
It’s essential to know what your specific policy’s exclusions are, or you may be surprised to find that your malpractice liability insurance doesn...