Category: General Plastic Surgery

Employee compensation is a tricky subject. During medical school and training you really don’t get much background in running an office and you rely upon senior partners and “on the job” training to keep the office running. In this environment, many practices are tightening their belts and finding innovative ways to compensate employees. It’s common [...]

While the New York Times is rightfully known as the nations’ newspaper (sorry USA Today), their articles bring out the worst in it’s audience when healthcare articles are feature. Witness last weeks article “Doctors’ Group Opposes Public Insurance Plan” which describes the American Medical Association’s (AMA) on the record objections to some of the single [...]

New York doctor comrades, I feel your pain! On July 14, all medical offices in New York performing surgery requiring anything other then local anesthesia will have to be accredited by one of the major ambulatory surgery regulatory boards. While this is imminently logical, it does create special problems in an older city like New [...]

If you’re looking for tangible evidence of 1. how some people feel unbelievably entitled 2. just how distorted people’s views of what health insurance is for 3. how distorted our legal system is Then look no farther then one Tess Sosa, one of the blessed to have ever survived a forced water landing by a [...]