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Hey Doc! Why don’t ambulances use their lights and siren anymore?

Doylestown Observer Columnists - submitted by Ken Lavelle, MD, FACEP, NRP, BC-EMS, EMS Medical Director, Central Bucks EMS Recently an ambulance was called to a local high school for a

It's Here! The Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study!

The public has been demanding a vaccinated vs unvaccinated study for decades. The CDC has steadfastly refused to fund or conduct such a study. In 2019, Informed Choice WA members proudly joined the grassroots effort to fund the IPAK 2019 Vaxxed/Unvaxxed Study. The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge (IPAK) is a not-for-profit organization which exists … It’s Here! The Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study! Read More »

Pfizer Vice President Blows The Whistle & Tells The Truth About The Pharmaceutical Industry

Below is a clip taken from the “One More Girl” documentary, a film regarding the Gardasil vaccine, which was designed to prevent Human Papillomavirus. In it, Dr. Peter Rost, MD, a former vice president of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world (Pfizer), shares the truth about the ties between the medical and […]

OptiBiotix looking to spin-out divisions to commercialise technologies

OptiBiotix Health plc's (LON:OPTI) Per Rehne tells Proactive that the company is looking to spin out its different divisions into separate businesses to commercialise its technologies.

Benchmark Medical Group Wants You to Feel Like I Feel For Free

If you have followed me at all you know this has been one heck of a year for me. I have transformed myself completely thanks to Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. I have lost over 140 lbs and kept it off for over 7 months. The mental and physical transformation has been mind blowing.

What A Marshmallow Says About Your Medical Group’s Future

A medical group can't aggregate capital for its future if it zeros out each year. The compensation plan must be revised.

The Doctor Will See You Sooner Now

ZocDoc’s new check-in service lets you fill out your paperwork before you get to the doctor’s office.

Structure and Compensation: The Genetic Defect In Medical Groups

It’s one thing to understand that playing to self-interest motivates. Harnessing that self-interest advances the business’ own interests. It’s altogether something else to create a medical group that operates as a collective or in a club-like structure. In that situation, the group members generally put their own interests ahead of the group’s interests. That all … Continue reading

Managing Impressions Required For Medical Group Success

It goes without saying as to any hospital-based medical group that top notch clinical skills are required. But, they merely are the “price of admission;” they get you into the position of holding a hospital contract, not actually holding it, or, in far too many cases, keeping it. Obviously, I can’t comment on the actual … Continue reading

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Why doctors are prescribing legal aid for patients in need

Though lawyers are often the last people doctors want to see involved in patient care, across the country, many medical systems have begun establishing special legal partnerships. Lawyers become allies for disadvantaged patients who need help navigating problems with landlords and insurers. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports from Omaha, Nebraska.

Affiliation Options for Physicians: Current and Future Strategies

This book from AAPL equips physicians, physician leaders, health system administrators, and private investors with an abundance of knowledge and effective strategies for making sound decisions based on the current and future environment of healthcare practice and delivery.

Medical Groups' Two Major Problems

I see two very common problems with medical groups. They move too slow. They do what everyone else does. In this market – a still-sick economy, the push toward ACOs and other so-called “alignment,” and the other ills of Obamacare – many are pushing toward becoming large. But large makes them fragile — prone to … Continue reading

Who Is Really In Charge Of Your Medical Group?

Some leaders of hospital-based groups, and I use the term “leader” broadly, believe that their groups are a function of the hospital. If the hospital no longer wants to contract with them, then that would be it, they’d simply pull the plug on the group. But what kind of group is that? What kind of … Continue reading

Payer-provider partnerships on record pace

So far this year, 22 alliances have been formed, with more than 90% using value-based reimbursement as a component.

Needless medical tests not only cost $200 billion, they can do harm

The health care industry thrives on ordering up medical tests and treatments, but some hospitals are urging restraint.

Meet Dr. Fiege: Physician to help further enhance medical efforts