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Rescuing Healthcare: A Leadership Prescription to Make Healthcare What We All Want It to Be by Antony Bell and Denis A. Cortese, MD. Morgan James Publishing. New York. 2017.
There is widespread agreement that American healthcare is in trouble. There have been many efforts to fix it. We have researched it and thrown money at it, but nothing has made a...
“A dedicated faith in humanity will send ripples in all directions.”
The Golden Notebook, Dorothy Lessing Clearly, many neurosurgeons demonstrate a dedicated faith in humanity and do a great deal to create tidal waves in positive directions. Unfortunately, too often the public’s attention is drawn to a few bad actors, whose abhorrent behaviors stain the profession. While the practice of medicine...
Snapchat. Twitter. LinkedIn. Facebook. Compared to these and other platforms for instantaneous electronic communication, email seems as antiquated as a horse and buggy. Who could have predicted that we would one day live in an age in which the best way to call attention to your message is to send it by old-fashioned snail mail?
The exponential growth of social...
Neurosurgeons earned a break and a return to the diurnal after the European fall meetings. In addition to being amidst the best neurosurgical practitioners in the world, necks were stiff from swiveling to see the great art and culture in every corner of Istanbul and Venice – host cities to the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons (WFNS) Congress and...
Imagine a high profile and desirable neurosurgical conference hosted by leading neurosurgeons from around the world. Registration is free and attendees can join in from their living room, favorite coffee shop or even the surgeons’ lounge. All this, at a time that is convenient for you. Would you participate?
Surgeons have long known the power of coming together to share...
Since 2004, Kevin Pho, MD has been a health care social media leader. He is also a practicing, board-certified internal medicine physician, a national media commentator and co-author of the book Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices. He is also the founder and editor of KevinMD.com, a popular website visited by medical...
I am a late adapter. Social media was not a natural fit, at first; I had done just fine without it, thank you. As a busy academic neurosurgeon, who has the time or the key messages to broadcast? However, in business school, I had learned the importance of connectivity and having wide numbers of contacts. LinkedIn provided an ideal...
The practice of medicine is an art in which communication is paramount for the successful treatment of our patients and the advancement of our field. Over the past few decades, there
has been a rapid escalation of technological advances that enhance our ability to share critical clinical data and obtain optimal patient outcomes. These include common use of the facsimile...
Like so much of today’s society, social media affects the world of publication metrics – a critical component of academic promotion and tenure. Traditional bibliometrics apply analytic tools and statistical methods to examine scholarly productivity.1-5 These relate largely conventional publications and databases, such as PubMed, that are accessed and quantified to provide an estimate of an individual’s academic performance.1,2 A physician’s...
There is a new ICD-10 code for spinal stenosis with claudication: M48.062. This covers both anatomy and symptomatology and thus appropriate for both E and M and surgical coding.
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