Archive for March, 2010

Difficult Patients: Why Resilience is a Factor

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

If you’ve worked in healthcare for any length of time at all, you’ve no doubt heard many tips and tricks for dealing with "difficult" patients – listen carefully, acknowledge the person’s frustration, speak in a calm voice, work to solve the problem, apologize when appropriate, and so on. Much of ...

How Safe is Your Practice?

Monday, March 1st, 2010

You may not think about practice safety on a daily basis, given everything else that you have to do to keep the office working smoothly. But on the day that a patient trips and falls in your waiting room, an employee gets a needle stick, or you find evidence that ...