I get to attend a lot of meetings in my current role, meetings that medical school nor residency nor fellowship prepared me for, meetings with people who don’t have a clue about medicine but either control the money, make the policies, or care solely about the hospitals image. Meetings about value based purchasing or outcome […]
Medicaid/Medicare, this is not how it is supposed to be
I’ve been pushed towards my boiling point. Colleagues saw that I could raise my voice. Luckily I did not have one of my famous temper flares. What has gotten me worked up? Medicaid! I saw a consult in the hospital recently. A 50 something year old poorly controlled insulin dependent diabetic with dialysis dependent kidney […]
New Infection Control Guidelines
I recently attended the SHEA/CDC Training Course in Healthcare Epidemiology in Seattle, WA. It offered hands-on workshops on the fundamental aspects of healthcare epidemiology including epidemic investigation. Not that I now can investigate an outbreak all on my own, but I understand the principles and have a better appreciation of the magnitude of the job […]