The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2003 - Business & Economics - 307 pages
The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners will enable you to streamline, modernize, and improve your practice -- using practical, proven, common-sense methods any physician can apply. Filled with easy-to-follow, easy-to-implement suggestions, this book is written for the practicing physician by a practicing physician. Three major sections show you how to improve your use of the three major tools -- your time, knowledge, and relationship management. By investing a small amount of time and effort into upgrading the use of any one of the tools, you'll free up additional resources to re-invest in further efficiency and productivity-- resulting in greater personal satisfaction and less risk, hassle, and frustration.
 

Contents

To Keep You in Practice
5
Scoring Your SelfDiagnostic Quiz
11
Who Can Manage Physicians?
17
SelfManagement Makes Sense
20
Cutting Down Our Inputs
26
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR PHYSICIANS
35
A Goal Sets Our Priorities
41
Become a CardCarrying Member
47
Using Lectures and Tapes More Efficiently
145
Learn from Your Own Errors
157
How to Learn a New Procedure Faster
166
If Youre a Cyberphobe This Ones for You
172
Clinical Wisdom
181
Clinical Intuition
191
Keep Moving and Enjoy
199
Chapter 12The Hidden Secret of Physician
205

Systematically Debride Your Schedule
53
Turn Garbage into Gold
60
Dont Overdo a Task
64
Cut Time Spent in Useless Meetings
73
With Paperwork Less Is Much Better
79
E Edit
85
When to Procrastinate
91
Pumped and Slumped
98
Commuting
105
Your Office Your Mess
108
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
115
Well Need Even More Useful Knowledge in
121
Knowledge Travels Faster and Wider
128
Your Personal Clinical Coach
134
People Are Never Tools
211
The WellTempered Interview
218
Be Aware of SelfPresentation
228
Chapter 14Your CoWorkers Can Do More
235
With Nursing and Office Staff the Key Word
243
Are You Sure Youre Not on the DoctorFromHell
252
How Nurses Judge Us
263
A Matter
269
Fighting Each Other Weakens Us All
274
Chapter 17Serve Your Self
283
The Pain of Change
290
No Magic Bullet
296
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Marshall Zaslove, M.D. is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Zaslove lives and practices in Napa, California. In addition to formal training at UCLA School of Medicine and at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, he studied homeopathy and alternative medicine in England. He has been applying relaxation and meditation techniques in his hospital and clinic practices for the past ten years. Dr. Zaslove served twice as chief of staff at California's largest mental hospital, and has several published articles. He conducts seminars on performance enhancement, occupational stress prevention, and meditation.

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