Archive for April, 2012

Something you rarely remember hearing from the past is that a physician had a lousy bedside manner. By bedside manner, we’re talking about how physicians talk to patients when giving them any type of health care, from putting a bandage on a finger to telling them they might not have long to live. One of […]

Last week there was a post on a blog written by a guy named Dan McCarthy titled 5 Myths About Giving Praise. His main premise was that employers always feel they’re giving enough or too much praise to begin with, while employees consistently report on surveys that they don’t get enough recognition or praise. via […]

In a recent article by the Harvard Business Review titled Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply, their premise was that there’s a dearth of leaders in society that seem capable of getting the job done, whatever the job is, and that as great leaders disappear so also goes the wealth of new and great […]

When I do my charge master reviews for hospitals, one of the areas that’s always of particular interest is supplies. Hospitals can literally have more than 5,000 supply items on their charge master; that’s hard for anyone to keep up with. Having items in their inventory control is one thing; having that many charges that […]

Back in November I wrote a post titled 4 Steps To Being A Better Leader. In actuality I probably should have used the term “concepts” instead of “steps” because those are really ideals that one holds a good leader has, but they’re not really steps are learning how to be a better leader. European Parliament […]