Doctors and Their Real Estate: 5 Mistakes Physicians Make When Leasing Space For Their Practices
Reprinted with permission from JP Roach, Associate and Assistant General Counsel at Hughes Marino. Click here to read the original article. Finding the right real estate for your medical practice can be laborious, time consuming, and expensive. At Hughes Marino, we help companies make the right real estate decisions for their businesses by delivering great...
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Entering Practice
By Michele Shermak, MD Reprinted from Young Plastic Surgeons Perspective, April 2003 Plastic Surgery News. Despite exuberant clinical exposure during plastic surgery training, important practical issues related to day-to-day practice as an attending may not be addressed, particularly for private practice situations. Having come to terms with this lack of education, our Young Plastic Surgeons...
Guest Blog: A Brief History of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Guest Blog: A Brief History of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital I recently visited with my mentor, Dr. Pinkel, and had the privilege of hearing his stories about the inception of St. Jude Children’s Hospital, a place that has changed the lives of millions. He tells me about getting cards from his patients who now...
Guest Blog: Growth
I didn’t want to see Dr Pinkel the last time I went home. It was October, and I was four months into my residency, struggling with this troublesome truth: I wished I hadnt become a doctor. Honest to God, if I could’ve taken back my four years, thousands of notecards, and literal house of debt,...
Guest Blog: Pretty (Tired)
I used to be pretty. Theoretically, I still could be. I have some decent raw material. Taller than average. Slender, athletic frame, if a little pear-shaped. Hair that is straight without intervention, light brown with natural strawberry highlights. Brown eyes, dark eyelashes, full lips. Clear skin with a few freckles. Maybe not beautiful, but okay....
Guest Blog: ToMAYto, ToMAHto
I work with with thirty-three different attendings. Who want patients managed, needles held, stitches thrown, lacerations repaired, knots tied thirty-three different ways. It was part of the learning curve, at first, learning which attending liked what, remembering who to call about different problems and learning to not be upset when I didn’t remember who preferred...
Guest Blog: Thank You
Here is a story of probably the nicest thing any patient has ever said to me. I wanted to write it down before I forgot, so I can look back at it on the days that I feel like my work doesn’t matter, an attending berates me, the nurses undermine my work, or there is...
Guest Blog: My White Coat
I was so excited to get my white coat. The White Coat Ceremony was the beginning of medical school, the confirmation that yes, I was going to be a doctor, and I couldn’t wait. As the dean of the program called my name and placed the coat on my shoulders, I smiled…and then noticed that...
Guest Blog: Porcupines on a Plane
As a veterinarian, I like to share my crazy animal stories. This one does not involve me directly, but my husband Max, and our friends, Drs. J and V, fellow veterinarians. J. owns a single engine 6 seater Cessna, and we enjoyed many fun flights together a few years ago, when we lived in Nevada....
Guest Blog: It’s a Man’s, Man’s World
My pants fell down today. I was listening to the lungs of a patient, and she had a toddler, about waist high, who tugged on the drawstring of my scrub pants to tell me something. They puddled on the floor, leaving me to examine my patient in my pink polka-dot panties. How professional. Nobody wants...
Guest Blog: Cat carriers and other torture devices…
There are many reasons why cat owners dread taking their favorite feline to the vet. It is actually difficult to safely get a cat to the clinic. All cat people will agree on that. Cats are smart and they will try to sabotage the operation in any way they can. Placing your cat in a...
Guest Blog: The Imposter
I’m still a little surprised that my name badge says Doctor. I’ve seen prescriptions filled that I’ve written, pausing momentarily to look with surprise and marvel that my name- Dr. A. Kennard- is on the label. And not as the patient. It’s in the top corner; the doctor’s spot on the label. I’m always surprised...
