Tommy Waddell,* a 55 year-old truck driver, finally sought care from neurosurgeon Andrew Lewis when his back pain became disabling. Waddell’s history included spinal stenosis, prior disc surgery, DVTs (for which he took warfarin), diabetes, obesity, and other health issues. Physical therapy provided lit...
In Article One of this three-part series, we discussed the causes, effects, and pathophysiology of burnout. If you have not read that article, it is important you do so. The tools that follow are more effective if you understand the fundamental blind spots and conditioning of our medical education.
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The federal government's Quality Payment Program (QPP) is now in its third year, although 2019 is the initial annum for the program's payment adjustments. For those of you who achieved perfect performance in 2017, your current Medicare remittances should reflect a 1.88% boost; a decline of 4% is the reality f...
