My goal is to instill even a little bit of joy in my patient’s lives! I ask them questions and try and help them find gratitude. Often the reason they’re in my office is because of negative things. I try to remind them that even though we are working on their health right …
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Small Business Ownership and Private Practice: Alike, Yet Different Medicare and commercial payers are moving to systems of monitoring quality, performance, and cost savings, and are paying providers according to the overall value they provide to their population of patients. Silos of independent practices, whatever their size, will not be able to meet …
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The key is to get more efficient so we can have more time in the room with our patients. We’re not a practice that dreams of seeing more patients. It’s a matter of spending more quality time with patients. Having a network like Privia helps us do that. It helps us become more efficient …
Often you walk into an examine room with a patient and you are expecting to talk with them about “ABC,” but they might want to talk about something else…
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When setting health goals, just think of it in terms of the next 20 minutes. “For 20 minutes, what am I going to do that’s healthy?” And then think about the next 20 minutes after that. Don’t worry about how you’ve got to exercise every day for the next 30 years!
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Looking at the symptoms, considering what I learned in medical school, coming up with a diagnosis, and then sitting down with my patients and talking together… It’s this whole process that makes medicine pretty. I’m a physician because I care for people and because I love the science of it. I love the …
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Patients will say to me, “I don’t know how to tell you this,” and I say, “Ya know, there’s probably nothing we haven’t heard in the years we’ve been in practice. Patients can often be nervous about telling doctors certain things. They worry they’re going to be judged. Most doctors are generally nonjudgmental …
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I’d like to see healthcare put in the hands of patients. Similar to auto insurance, if you have a good driving record then your insurance stays at the same price. If you improve your health, or you stay healthy, then your cost will go down. Unfortunately, we don’t really have an incentive system …
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Patients surprise me every day with their depth of knowledge of their own bodies. Even when they come in seeking advice, many times they know what’s wrong, and parents too. Whether it’s an illness or an inadequacy a parent is feeling that they haven’t been able to verbalize, it’s important to let people …
