Practice Management
- High users of healthcare: Strategies to improve care, reduce costs
A minority of patients called “high users” consume a lot of healthcare, especially in the emergency department. But therein lies an opportunity.
- A New Year’s transition and looking forward
Time to take stock of advances in—and obstacles to—the delivery of quality healthcare.
- Channeling the flow of medical information
Accesssing information today is like drinking from a firehose. We need some kind of valve to adjust the flow.
- Caring for international patients November 2016
Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).
- In Reply: Caring for international patients November 2016
Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).
- Staying afloat in a sea of information: Point-of-care resources
We can refine our skills in accessing, sorting, and interpreting scientific evidence.
- Patients with challenging behaviors: Communication strategies
Having a plan to deal with difficult personality types leads to better communication and outcomes—and less stress.
- Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.
- The peacock and the doctor
Of the seven deadly sins, the worst is pride—avoid a chauvinistic attitude when caring for international patients.