DITTO! Also, check out the yahoo group Practice Improvement 1. It is a group of docs doing the "Ideal Medical Practice". Although I am not one of them, I am envious. Too old now to make that drastic a change. Most importantly, you are the boss. Just because an insurance company or hospital or lawyer says you need to do something does not make it so. For example, if a mail order pharmacy in Arizona says it is against Arizona law for them to accept stamped signatures, tell them (as I do) that you do not practice in Arizona. Make them take the added steps and cost to get an "original signature" rather than you doing it. Set your rules, limits, policies now because it is harder to change down the road. Do not be afraid to be a rebel, as long as what your are rebelling against benefits your patients and you in the long run.

Good Luck,

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "