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Hospital Politics and How To Protect Yourself
PART 4 (Click Here for Part 1) Remember I said that the hospital seemingly runs on protocols for everything? Much of our care is directed by standards that are well researched, examined and thought out. The decisions are tailored to give patients the best possible...
Hospital Politics and How To Protect Yourself
PART 3 (Click Here for Part 1) So why is this political? Because the tests that are ordered, the specialists that get consulted and ultimately the care that you receive in the hospital is determined by who employs the Hospitalist. Years ago hospitals started buying...
Hospital Politics and How To Protect Yourself
PART 2 (of 5) Click Here for Part 1 How does your hospital stay involve politics you ask? I’m getting to that, I promise. Let’s follow your admission from the time you enter the ER with a list of complaints. The ER does an intake history on you where they list all...
Hospital Politics and How To Protect Yourself
PART 1 (of 5) I once had a patient who was quite disappointed to hear that there were politics in medicine. I gently chided her that where there was big money, so came the political fights. This conversation reminded me of how sad I was when I encountered it in my...
I mean what I say and say what I mean
Hopefully many of my new visitors to this website have noticed our new featured twitter feed @DoctorEndocrine. Twitter may be new to some of you and old hat to others. I have been a “tweeter” for many years now and have found an amazing community of souls there. This...
Happy New Year!!!
Welcome to the new and improved Endocrinology Associates website. I would like to thank the team at Unlikely Industries for creating our new site and Adam Brouillette for redesigning our logo. I have been working for years with this dedicated group of local...
Endocrinology Associates is pleased to congratulate Dr. Christofides
Endocrinology Associates is pleased to congratulate Dr. Christofides for the acceptance of her paper’s poster at the prestigious American Diabetes Association annual meeting, June 5-9, 2009 in New Orleans. The paper reflects nearly three years of her clinical practice...
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