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“I am an old man and I have worried much about things that have never happened.” Mark Twain In 1990, the year I received my pharmacist’s license, there was no such word as compliance. HIPPA did not even exist. Medicine policed itself based on high moral and ethical standards. Obviously things have changed. As a result of regulatory increases and the possibility of immense fines, health care organizations have had no choice but to implement […]

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen “Doctors are such assholes!!” he blurted out after drinking about half of the tallest beer I had ever seen. We were sitting in a lounge at The Yacht And Beach Club at The Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. I was lost in a daydream fueled by the ambient music and the memories of the day. Our wives had gone […]

In “The Successful Thinker” Otis has an encounter with a unique individual. Marsha his coworker is confused by the way Otis interacts with the gentleman and learns an interesting lesson about Brain ANTs and the 5 ways to avoid them!

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What most providers fail to realize is that they have let circumstances push, shove, or even nudge them off course for what they set out to do in the first place. Obviously, no one got into medicine so that they could get to go to war with the bureaucrats, the drama queens, and the policy storm troopers, but you no longer have to let the villains win. Make no mistake, if you are experiencing provider […]