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Articles

2014

The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers

Scribes in the Urgent Care

Medical Malpractice Insurance: Read the Fine Print

Malpractice Trends in Urgent Care and Retail Medicine

Treating the Self-Harming Patient in the Urgent Care

ObamaCare Update or Fear and Loathing: The Affordable Care Act

2013

Using Physician Extenders

The New Normal of Medical Malpractice and How We Are Making it Worse

Commercial Motor Vehicle Medical Examinations – Act Now to Participate!

Et tu, Brute?

Continue CPR! or How to Save the Patient and Screw the Pooch

It’s Not Just Drugs and Rock and Roll

2012

‘Why Can’t We All Get Along?’

What You Don’t Know

Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid

DUI: Rules of the Road

On Rock Bands, Plane Crashes, SWAT Teams and Codes

Sister Morphine

To P.E. or not to P.E.

2011

Aequanimitas*

Selling Your Urgent Care? Here’s What’s Involved

Are Urgent Cares Liable?

How to Get Sued for Malpractice: Four Studies In Self-Destruction

Every Man His Own Doctor

Malpractice Insurance: A Primer for Urgent Care Clinicians

The Unsociable Network

Accountable Care Organizations, Where do Urgent Care Centers Fit?

Like Super Good Written, Verbal and Non-verbal Communication and Stuff

Management v. Leadership, 558 U.S. 461 (2010)

2010

Preventing the “Delta Uniform” or, Malpractice Reduction in the Urgent Care Center

The Checklist – Part 3

The Checklist – Part 2

Cleared for Takeoff

Transitions

Harmony in the Urgent Care

A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Practice

Too Big to Fail – Urgent Care Lessons from Toyota

Using Evidence-based Care Paths

‘Sorry’ Shouldn’t Be The Hardest Word

Deconstructing the Ten Commandments of Urgent Care Medicine

2009

So Here’s What I’ve Learned…

Persistence

Duty to Report

A Tale of Two Applicants

Entrepreneurism – Or, How Not to Turn a Lot of Money into a Little

A Short Course in Tort

Pull Up! Pull Up!

Safety First When Consummating Relationships with Vendors

Beware the BFRF!

How to Say ‘Farewell and Adieu’ to Owning Your Business

EMTALA and Transferring Patients to the Emergency Department

2008

Strategies on Responding to Variable Patient Acuity and Flow

Managing Through Change

Medical Search Firms: Match Making Comes to Medicine

Bankruptcy Part Two: Honesty is the Only Policy

Bankruptcy: When BK Doesn’t Mean You Can Have It Your Way

Send Lawyers, Guns and Money: Asset Protection for Providers and Urgent Care Owners

There Will be Blood: Key Reasons That Start-ups Fail

The “O-Ring” in Medical Malpractice Cases

What the Gray Haired Never Shared

Insulating Your Practice from Sexual Harassment Claims

In Consideration of Binding Arbitration Agreements

2007

Compliant Management of Non-Compliant Staff

When Urgent Care is the Safest Place to Turn

Hiring an Employee

Employment Contracts Part 2: Troublesome Clauses

Test the Waters Before Signing an Employment Contract

Vicarious Liability

Overview of a Malpractice Trial (and How to Survive)

Settling the Case

How to Prepare for and Give a Deposition

What to Do When You Get Named in a Malpractice Suit

Protecting Yourself Against Medical Malpractice Claims, Part 2

2006

Protecting Yourself Against Medical Malpractice Claims

COMPLICATIONS: Informed Consent and Treating Minors in Urgent Care

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