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JCAHO Descends Upon Us

8 December, 2010 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Sometime in the past couple of months JCAHO paid an unannounced visit to my hospital. I should have known something was up when I saw our Chief Medical Officer up on one of the medical floors talking excitedly to an old man in a suit. My naïve self assumed he was interviewing a new physician…no […]

Filed Under: Medicine Tagged With: Angry Patients, Bureaucracy, Financial Medicine, Medical Residency

The Rash of Doctor Salary Posts from WSJ Health Blog

22 June, 2009 by GAggreyMD 1 Comment

First, WSJ reported on the starting salaries of physicians and now they are reporting on the trend of increasing signing bonuses given to physicians. At first I was eager to learn how much physicians make (as I mentioned previously, medical students, residents, and fellows are often clueless about their future net-worth and either ballpark it […]

Filed Under: Medicine Tagged With: Financial Medicine, Job Search, Physician Income

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