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Dr. Thomas Royer
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the Chef Medical Correspondent for CNN, recently wrote that overdoses are the most common cause of preventable deaths in America today. In addition, the 2016 presidential primaries have highlighted states where opioid addiction and related deaths are their governments’ number one concern. Although drug dealers are part of the problem, we are reminded that doctors have ...
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Jay Herron and Carla Sampson
Question: Are nurses being educated and treated as knowledge workers? Background: As early as the 1950’s, Peter Drucker identified numerous challenges and opportunities related to the growth in knowledge work and knowledge workers. In Drucker’s 1973 book Management he stated, “Managing knowledge work and knowledge workers will require exceptional imagination, exceptional courage, ...
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Thomas Royer MD, Peter Maddox and Jay Herron
We have no special powers. We are not clairvoyant. Rather, we have lived within the healthcare management world for nearly 100 years, combined. We all recall the days docs made house calls. Being entrenched in the ever changing health care scene, the three of us made many predictions. Some of which, people may have thought were ludicrous. But, today, they are all a part of health care reality. ...
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Jay Herron
In 2010, Michael Lewis enriched our lives through the book, The Big Short, by explaining how a small group of individuals became extremely wealthy by short selling the US housing market. To make everyones’ Christmas more special, Hollywood decided to further the enrichment process by having holiday movie goers relive the financial crisis by releasing the The Big Short in movie form. Being a ...
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Peter Maddox
We can delay no longer. For many of the past several decades we have pursued only half measures and lip service toward needed response to a tidal wave of demographic (particularly aging and extended life expectancy) and financial change…but, more importantly, spending on individuals. Federal projections, done by the Congressional Budget Office, for Medicare and Medicaid have identified that ...
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