Communications

I’m going to acknowledge something here; I can be fairly sensitive at times. I get that way whenever certain speech patterns of mine, based on my background, come up for discussion. I will also admit that sometimes I should just shut my mouth and move on, but we all know that doesn’t always happen. An [...]

While trying to come up with the title of this post, I wondered if I should limit it to business communications, since this is a business blog. I decided that it didn’t matter who it was geared toward because communications is a problem we all have with each other, business or not. I like to [...]

Lately I’ve been talking a little bit more about some of the services I offer as it regards something called a charge master. I write about it often because I have found that there are many people, including in healthcare, that really don’t understand why it’s so important. I have a friend who’s also a [...]

My dad passed away on June 16, 2002 at 4:45PM. That was yesterday, and I knew at 4:45 yesterday that it had been 9 years. I was also contemplating something that happened only 2 or 3 weeks earlier, something that seemed to change my dad, at least in my mother’s eyes, and kind of in [...]

When last we left we were talking about the problems that crop up when two parties don’t negotiate in good faith. Although sometimes I think some people do that on purpose because they enjoy the conflict, overall I tend to believe that most parties would rather find ways to talk to each other and get [...]

There’s an interesting uprising going on in Wisconsin these days. The state is having money problems, like every other state, and the governor of the state is ready to take some moves that may or may not be legal. Of course the people against it aren’t happy and there are daily protests occurring, sometimes a [...]

Last week one of my wife’s friends had her purse stolen, which of course means everything else was taken as well. The problem here is that no one ran up to her and took it from her. There was no struggle at all. It turns out she’d gone to the library and signed up on [...]