Articles by Topic - Practice Management
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- Article: Fill the Gap: Strategies for addressing the otolaryngology workforce shortage
- Gretchen Henkel
- Published: Jan 01, 2010
- How do you plan to deal with workforce shortages? If you are like 55 percent of the audience at an interactive mini-seminar held during the October American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation annual meeting, you intend to hire additional otolaryngologists to help with practice overload.
- Article: Trauma Care and the Otolaryngologist: Roles, Expectations, and Challenges
- Nierengarten, Mary Beth
- Published: Dec 01, 2009
- SAN DIEGO-Trauma care in the United States is on or heading toward life support. Although this may sound hyperbolic, it points to a need, seen by many otolaryngologists and other surgeons, to raise awareness of the growing gap between the numbers of people in need of trauma services and the accessibility of getting those services.
- Article: Spreading Medical Knowledge Abroad Is Necessary and Rewarding
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Sep 01, 2009
- PHOENIX-As James D. Smith, MD, took his place behind the lectern to prepare to speak about what America's role should be in the instruction of physicians in underprivileged and disease-stricken countries, a question was posed on the screen next to him: Do we have a responsibility to help?
- Article: Recruitment, Evaluation, Regionalization Among Novel Challenges to the Specialty
- Pippa Wysong
- Published: Aug 01, 2009
- PHOENIX-The speciality of head and neck surgery has come a long way. But, along with huge advances in the types of treatments available and the technologies used, the profession is facing challenges-such as the recruitment of good candidates into the field and issues related to the regionalization and globalization of care.
- Article: Outgoing ALA President Forecasts Bright Future
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Aug 01, 2009
- PHOENIX-Laryngology is enjoying a resurgence in the world of endoscopy and the future of the field is promising, outgoing American Laryngological Association (ALA) President Roger L. Crumley, MD, MBA, said in his presidential address at the 130th annual meeting of the association, an address that touched on the discipline's past as well as challenges it is facing.
- Article: The Time for Leadership Is Now, Says Past ACS President
- Thomas R. Collins
- Published: Jul 01, 2009
- PHOENIX-With the election of President Barack Obama and with lawmakers in Washington poised to overhaul the health care system, with patients' faith in their doctors faltering, and with health costs continuing to rise and quality becoming ever more questionable, Gerald B. Healy, MD, took the lectern for his keynote address here as if he were taking the helm of a ship at risk of being capsized by stormy seas.
- Article: Green Is the Healthy Way to Go
- Pippa Wysong
- Published: Jul 01, 2009
- PHOENIX-Doctors have a duty to encourage the hospitals and clinics they work in to go green because helping create a cleaner environment will improve the health of the very patients they are supposed to be caring for.
- Article: Private Practitioners Take Different Marketing Paths, with Common Theme
- Gretchen Henkel
- Published: Jun 01, 2009
- East Coast, West Coast, Midwest-when it comes to effective marketing techniques, otolaryngologists in private practice sound themes parallel to those shared by their colleagues in academic and group practices.
- Article: Quality Medical Care Forms Basis for All Marketing
- Gretchen Henkel
- Published: May 01, 2009
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- Article: Marketing Challenges and Opportunities in Otolaryngology: Unified Marketing Plan Yields Increase in Patient Load
- Gretchen Henkel
- Published: Apr 01, 2009
- Part 1 of 3 articles
