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Lessons From Covering Down

These days, this is considered Extreme Leadership: If the team is failing, the leader is failing. As one watches support dwindle, you begin to cover down. To cover down means to taking on the duties of your fallen teammates. In medicine, our medical assistants assist the physician in multiple tasks. Prior authorizations, durable medical equipment,Continue reading “Lessons From Covering Down”

Path to Homestead Part 3 (House and Barn Stuff)

Part 3 of the Path to Homestead series has been split between the housework in this post and the food-related work in last week’s post. While I was writing this post, it was clear that there was a lot of content to be covered. Though this trip was the most relaxing and fun so far,Continue reading “Path to Homestead Part 3 (House and Barn Stuff)”

When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude: 48 Laws of Power in the Business of Medicine

It has been a terrible day in the clinic- to top off a month of resignations of clinical staff. You finally sit down at your desk to complete a mound of paperwork, patient notes, and unread results only to find an email from the business department regarding your RVUs. The meeting goes sour as theyContinue reading “When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude: 48 Laws of Power in the Business of Medicine”

May 2022: National Health Awareness

Welcome to May! I hope that you have prepared your beach body because it is warming up and the COVID data still looks pretty good (new cases and deaths are down). May is quite the Awareness month comprised of American Stroke, Arthritis, Cystic Fibrosis, Better Hearing and Speech, Global Employee Health and Fitness, Healthy Vision,Continue reading “May 2022: National Health Awareness”

National Health Awareness: April 2022

I am cautiously optimistic that the COVID-19 numbers are staying down in our region. The worldwide data suggest a small uptick and a hybrid variant in the UK appears to be having a slower uptrend (variant was detected in my city the week of 24MAR). We will see what next month brings, but I amContinue reading “National Health Awareness: April 2022”

Living the Dream

While in the Military, we would use phrases to express the overwhelming nature of certain missions or roles that we served. When times were intensely dis-pleasant, we would say things like “embrace the suck” to express the need to soldier on through to accomplish the mission. When leadership would hear this term, however, it wasContinue reading “Living the Dream”