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I spoke to a local beer brewer once and asked him what he prefers to make, and his answer was something like a Triple, Doppelbock, or something else…

I just read a wonderful article by Dr. BJ Miller, hospice and palliative medicine physician. As 2020 had been a very challenging year, with much of the stress related to…

Medical Decision Making (MDM) and Time: these are what you need to focus on for Evaluation Management (E/M) coding as of January 1st, 2021. History and physical exams…

UPDATE: No surprises, but my organization has said that they haven’t budgeted for this provision, and cannot participate. Given this financial disaster of a year, I am not…

For those of us who work within a health care organization, as opposed to a private practice, we are thrust into a bureaucratic structure when we accept our…

As I like to say: “Knowledge is power, and also leverage.” So, let’s empower ourselves about concepts and rules that we work within, and then leverage that information…

Sometime around 2009, my mind was opened to a new way of thinking about how the rest of my life, including my career, could look. The first time…

At this point, should we all assume that things at work can always get worse than they currently are? The pandemic has proved that, over and over, so NOW is…

I was recently approached by someone within my organization about an opportunity to take a leadership role that would really move me up our corporate ladder. The email…

Here are two takes on the definition of BURNOUT, albeit similar. I believe, especially as the term BURNOUT has become part of the everyday lexicon, we need to ensure that we…