Overbooked and Overextended: How to Avoid Scheduling Nightmares
One of the pearls of practice management that can make or break the workday, but is never mentioned in a medical textbook, is how to triage patients when your clinic is booked out for an extended time. How do you decide what patients get in sooner and who can wait? Should there be a tier system for scheduling based on urgency? How do you handle cosmetic patients who all want to get in yesterday! D …
One of the pearls of practice management that can make or break the workday, but is never mentioned in a medical textbook, is how to triage patients when your clinic is booked out for an extended time. How do you decide what patients get in sooner and who can wait? Should there be a tier system for scheduling based on urgency? How do you handle cosmetic patients who all want to get in yesterday! D … Continue reading "Overbooked and Overextended: How to Avoid Scheduling Nightmares"
Explain in 2 or 3 sentences what you do.
The Dermatologic Society of Greater New York was founded in 1924, originally as the Bronx Dermatologic Society, with approximately a dozen members. It has changed and grown since then to become, with over 250 members, the largest regional dermatologic society in the United States. Because of its size and the fame of its internationally-renowned membership, … 
If you’ve started a practice, or thought about doing so, you may have developed a checklist: office space, equipment, technology, insurance providers, product lines. And then comes the momentous task of staffing your office. Hiring and firing are two integral parts of both starting and running a practice. It can be extremely challenging to find the right people who will work well for the office … 
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The Women’s Dermatologic Society cultivates personal and professional development of dermatologists, with a focus on mentorship, volunteerism, and leadership. WDS offers a number of awards programs and volunteer op … 
Okay, so we all know that patients run late especially the last couple of the day. They also have the best excuses. The best one so far is the appointment we had scheduled yesterday afternoon. The patient was a young teenage boy and his mother was bringing him to his appointment. The mom called in a panic–
“We are going to be late, I got halfway to the appointment and realized that my son was … 