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Why Surgical Practices Are Merging

Size doesn’t always matter, but when it comes to surgical practices, more and more practices are joining forces to create larger and more formidable medical entities. And there’s a good reason this has become one of the hottest trends of...

October 8, 2020

Fears, Finances, and Faces: Seven Trends Emerging in Elective Surgery from COVID-19

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Fears, Finances, and Faces: Seven Trends Emerging in Elective Surgery from COVID-19

The global pandemic has sent us all on an unpredictable ride, with no real end in sight. Worldwide, we are doing our best to adapt to living with the numerous challenges this brings, while holding our breath and hoping that...

September 17, 2020

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The Cost of Pausing Elective Surgery

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. by force in March 2020, elective surgery was paused while doctors and hospitals fought on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus. While there were hopes that the coronavirus crisis could pass swiftly,...

September 1, 2020

Healthcare Terms and Their Origins: Making Sense of Doctor Speak

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Healthcare Terms and Their Origins: Making Sense of Doctor Speak

Doctors have a language all of their own that’s basically Greek to most non-medical folk. Given that the Greeks founded modern medicine — cue the Hippocratic Oath — it’s no surprise that many common medical words actually originate from Greek....

July 30, 2020

How to Encourage Patients to Have Surgery During COVID-19

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How to Encourage Patients to Have Surgery During COVID-19

As many states across the country have opened up, and the “new normal” becomes just “normal,” the number of elective surgeries taking place remains lower than the average pre-COVID-19. Despite assumptions that patients would be banging down the doors to...

July 15, 2020

Navigating the “New Normal”: How to Safely Open Your Surgical Practice After A Pandemic

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Navigating the “New Normal”: How to Safely Open Your Surgical Practice After A Pandemic

A new but different normal. That’s what we expected after a few months in isolation. With the changes, elective surgery went from none to starting up again at various levels across the country. Exactly how and when each state reopened...

June 8, 2020

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The Return of Elective Surgery

The COVID-19 crisis is not behind us, but it seems the first (and hopefully only) wave of infections is waning in certain areas of the U.S. and in some parts of the world. So it’s no surprise there’s a push...

May 18, 2020

How to Plan For the Surgical Backlog When A Pandemic Ends

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How to Plan For the Surgical Backlog When A Pandemic Ends

No one knows when a pandemic will be over. Early predictions for COVID-19 ranged from the hopeful (one-to-two months) to the unimaginable (12-18 months, or longer). The truth is, no one knows when a pandemic will end or what the...

April 22, 2020

COVID-19 Has Put an End to Elective Surgery, Now What?

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COVID-19 Has Put an End to Elective Surgery, Now What?

Hospitals are by-design places of healing. Unfortunately, they can also be places of harm. As high-traffic thoroughfares full of sick and vulnerable people, hospitals are basically a petri dish in the spread of infections. With a virus as virulent as...

March 26, 2020

How to Prepare Your Surgical Practice for a Pandemic

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How to Prepare Your Surgical Practice for a Pandemic

While it feels like we are starring in a Hollywood horror movie (you know the one), there’s no getting away from the fact that — for the moment at least — there is a new “normal.” And in this new...

March 15, 2020

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Why Surgical Practices Are Merging

Fears, Finances, and Faces: Seven Trends Emerging in Elective Surgery from COVID-19

The Cost of Pausing Elective Surgery

Healthcare Terms and Their Origins: Making Sense of Doctor Speak

How to Encourage Patients to Have Surgery During COVID-19

Navigating the “New Normal”: How to Safely Open Your Surgical Practice After A Pandemic

The Return of Elective Surgery

How to Plan For the Surgical Backlog When A Pandemic Ends

COVID-19 Has Put an End to Elective Surgery, Now What?

How to Prepare Your Surgical Practice for a Pandemic

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