Greetings, ASA Monitor readers! Our topic this month has widespread appeal. ASA members have enormous diversity in our clinical and professional interests, yet all of us are unified by the expedients driving our working environment, whether we realize it or not. Financial, operational, and regulatory concerns are a specter looming over every practice in the country. These factors dictate how groups are able to function, separate and apart from anything to do with the doctor/patient relationship and clinical medicine itself. So, “the stuff they didn't teach us in medical school” turns out to be awfully important.
Don't lose heart!Dr. David Samaniemay not have learned about the business of medicine in school either, but he is an honors graduate of the “school of hard knocks.” He has a wealth of experience in perioperative medicine and has worked in diverse practice environments.
As always, I welcome feedback at...