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Stroke Awareness Month — enacting better protocols can save lives

The reality when it comes to strokes? The closest hospital is not always the best option.

I'm With the Band: Eight Things I Learned as a Traveling PT

Traveling the world as a physical therapist for rock stars has taught me what's most important to keep healthy. Here are the eight things I've learned.

What You Need to Know Today for Breast Health

Patients come to me every day asking what they can do to decrease their risk of getting breast cancer. They keep up with regular screenings (including br...

Five-Year Study for Relapse Prevention

Relapse prevention is one of the most important elements of addiction recovery. Working a solid program by staying connected with your su...

Is It Indigestion or A Heart Attack?

The holiday season can sometimes lead to unhealthy behaviors. We indulge at holiday buffets, enjoy an extra cocktail, skip our regular exercise and stress about everything that needs to be done. Perhaps that’s why there’s an increase in heart-related deaths during the holiday season. After analyzing 25 years of data and 53-million U.S. death certificates, researchers discovered the correlation, with heart-breaking numbers peaking on Christmas, the…

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

Malpractice Case: Care Coordination Requires Action, Not Just Words

Primary care physicians must sometimes take extra steps to coordinate patient care. Failure to do so could result in trouble.

Building Value Within Your Medical Group

If you were going to sell your house, you’d make sure that it’s put into decent or even prime shape before listing it, right? After all, you want to sell it for top dollar to the right buyer, one who is likely to close on the deal. Yet many medical group leaders and shareholders don’t … Continue reading

Dr. Simone Gold And The Fight Against Medical Corruption

Dr. Simone Gold is the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, an organization committed to maintaining the physician-patient relationship in the face of

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

Patients need to be the focus of integrated care

Integration within the NHS has historically been structural but from the patient's perspective it has lacked co-ordination, explains Mark Britnell

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.