Tips: Financial Advice for Health Care Practitioners for Tax Day
Ah, April 15; everyone’s favorite day. It is well-known that the tax literacy of healthcare practitioners is pretty laughable. Since I have no financial...
Physical Exam Tips: The Nervous System
The physical exam of the brain and nervous system can be broken down into two parts: the lumbar puncture and everything else.
Lumbar Puncture
The lumbar...
ICD-10 Primer, Lesson 3: Star Wars Codes
Another wonderful strength of the new ICD-10 coding system is not only the increased number of codes dealing with the rare but possible real-life...
How to Write a Resignation Letter & Burn As Many Bridges As Possible
With burnout at a record high and no signs of improvement in sight, there will be an increasing need for letters of resignation. But...
Physical Exam Tips: The Heart
In this series, we review the physical exam, the intermediate step in a patient evaluation that ultimately leads to imaging. There are so many...
ICD-10 Primer, Lesson 2: Roller-Skate Documentation
A minute doesn’t go by at work without someone talking about yet another patient involved in some roller-skating injury. ICD-9 codes for roller-skating were...
Physical Exam Tips: The Abdomen
Two things are needed for a spectacular abdominal exam: luck and an abdomen. The following review focuses on different aspects of the abdominal exam,...
Fancy Medical Terms and What They Really Mean
Nurses and doctors use fancy words to communicate and sound smart before patients, families and each other. Having spent most of his adult life...
ICD-10 Primer, Quiz 1: Can You Spot the Y92 Code That Isn’t Real?
It is probably safe to assume that every health care practitioner in America has committed the Y92 or “the place of occurrence of the...