Surviving Your Career
By its very nature, medical practice work can be frenzied, stressful, and overwhelming. You and your staff are likely under constant interruption, making it impossible to give each task the attention it deserves, and simply completing the huge number of necessary tasks each day can be a struggle. Effective time management is essential to the smooth operation of a medical practice. These practices can help you reduce your stress, improve your productivity, and reclaim your personal life.
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Practice Management: Saving Money on the Little Things |
It is a truism in life: “The little things add up.” For the Office Manager trying to wrestle with a medical practice’s bottomline, it is adage to keep in mind. There are many areas where a practice may be leaking money, and as Office Manager you may be able to plug some of them up.
I am working on a “What makes a GREAT Practice Manager” whitepaper. This will be a collaborative effort of many practice manager contacts to be used for several purposes, including but not limited to: Practice Manager’s teaching a class, Doctors trying to find the perfect fit for a position and a Managers guide to live by. If any of you have any ideas you would like to contribute to this paper please reply these ideas via this blog. All ideas used will be credited to you in the white paper when published. Please also let us know if it is acceptable to have our writer contact you for more information if necessary (interview, or clarification of your idea, etc).
As a busy medical office manager, keeping up with the latest gadgets designed to help you “save time” can actually eat up your spare time. With your work computer, home computer, laptop, phone, PDA, or blackberry, trying to keep up with all your data is a challenge. This is especially true when you need to be able to access the latest versions of your files and all your software applications from multiple locations.
Having a successful career as an office manager requires a specific skill set. However, knowledge and ability is only half the picture. To really enjoy this job, you need a particular type of personality. Let’s explore some of the traits that will help you thrive in this demanding position. The DiSC assessment talks about 4 types of behavioral/personality based attributes that are helpful in this type of discussion:
Having a successful career as an office manager requires a specific skill set. However, knowledge and ability is only half the picture. To really enjoy this job, you need a particular type of personality. Let’s explore some of the traits that will help you thrive in this demanding position. The DiSC assessment talks about 4 types of behavioral/personality based attributes that are helpful in this type of discussion:
Working overtime is a normal practice in today’s job market. But who determines when burning the midnight oil begins to tip the scale to the “unhealthy” side of living?
Don’t bring your job with you!
When Memorial Day weekend began, our mind started to focus on the savored summertime season. Barbeques, swimming in pools, walks along the sea or just swinging in a back yard hammock to catch up on some well needed R&R are all part of the season’s fun, but too many of us forget to clock out at work, even if we are on a family beach vacation.
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7 Tips for Balancing Parenthood and Medical Practice Management |
You already know how to manage a medical practice, but how do you go about managing your home life? It isn’t that different. The skills you use at work – organizing, planning, and coordinating staff – can be just as useful when managing your family.
Question: On occasion, our medical office has a patient in the lobby that is “disruptive.” The patient constantly complains about the wait time to see the physician and his ongoing medical costs. He also approaches other patients in the lobby and not only shares his medical history, but inquiries into the reasons why the other patients are seeing the physician. What should we do?