You can either sit at your computer endlessly applying for jobs or you can build a successful and effective network of key people in the new, nonclinical career field you want to enter. Which do you think is more successful? More and more physicians today are employed by large systems, medical groups, payor organizations and other management groups. What that means is this... searching for a nonclinical job is a challenge. Yes, it is, but it's not an insurmountable one. You p

Greatest Generation, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials... as the generations separate from one another their distinctions become more and more important to shaping the practice of medicine. Unfortunately, the education, training and practice of medicine have proven tone-deaf and unable to keep up. That's why so many physicians are seeking to leave practice today.    There was a time when physicians sought to emulate their predecessors, if not in actual practice and procedures, cert

How many times have you recounted a bad situation, a bad conversation, some negative event, to have the person you're speaking with ask simply, " Can you prove that? " If you've made and kept accurate file notes, the answer is, yes. This is how you protect yourself. By now everyone is familiar with the use or mis-use (depending on your political orientation) of Contemporaneous Memos/File Notes, etc.... Here is the reality, however. Contemporaneous Memos, Notes, Emails can be