Discussion Forum Respond to the threads below
Disability Insurance
Another bad experience (posted 8-12-97)
A warning about UNUM (posted 2-8-98)
More problems with UNUM (posted 12-17-98)
The same thing is happening to me (posted 9-25-99)
Problems with CIGNA (posted 6-4-01)
UNUM problems in Canada (posted 7-19-01)
Switched from accident to illness (posted 10-2-01)
Yet another bad experience (posted 2-8-98)
Problems with Northwestern Mutual (posted 1-25-00)
UNUM again (posted 9-20-00)
Frustration with UNUM (posted 10-13-00)
UNUM rejection (posted 2-7-01)
Protecting your disability insurance benefits (posted 3-1-01)
Physician's disability insurance market (posted 5-1-01)
UNUM denial (posted 6-30-01)
Switch insurance companies (posted 10-3-01)
Send your own records (posted 11-8-01)
UNUM problems in U.K.? (posted 11-25-01)
Physician Reimbursement
Implementing a new physician reimbursement paradigm (posted 1-4-00)
Several key points are missing (posted 1-4-00)
Beware third-party payors (posted 1-4-00)
Nursing Scope of Practice
Battling for nursing autonomy (posted 10-8-99)
Clinical nurse specialists are not new (posted 10-8-99)
Open letter to Rep. Vance (posted 10-8-99)
Parity in prescribing between nurses & PAs (posted 10-19-99)
Balancing nursing autonomy and quality of care (posted 11-17-99)
Where is the difference between a CRNP and a PA? (posted 12-3-99)
The expansion of APRN scope of practice (posted 1-4-00)
The facts about nurses' training (posted 1-4-00)
Third-Party Messenger Model
Anyone have experience with the messenger model? (posted 5-7-99)
Think of the messenger as a mailman (posted 5-11-99)
Tort Reform
Coalition tackles tort reform (posted 4-16-99)
PMS has abandoned its major goal (posted 4-16-99)
'Present worth' is simpler, more direct (posted 5-6-99)
Malpractice Insurance
Malpractice insurance market evolves (posted 12-17-98)
A good experience with the CAT Fund (posted 12-17-98)
Hospital Systems
Unify medical staffs within systems (posted 10-28-98)
New AMA Health Care Reform Plan
Return control to individuals (posted 9-6-98)
Telephone Nurse Triage
Highmark's Blues on Call (posted 9-6-98)
Legalities of a telephone nurse triage system (posted 9-6-98)
Telephone nurse triaging is wrong (posted 9-6-98)
Telephone triage works (posted 6-30-99)
Response of a telephone triage nurse (posted 7-23-99)
Independence Blue Cross
Surgeons fight IBC reimbursement cuts (posted 9-6-98)
IBC news briefs (posted 12-17-98)
IBC ain't what it used to be (posted 9-6-98)
Don't lose faith in the free market (posted 10-28-98)
Pa. Quality Health Care Accountability and Protection Act
No teeth in Pa. health care bill of rights (posted 9-7-98)
Malpractice Insurance Denial of Fenfluramine
Practice Management Fee Structures
Unionize, Corporatize, Socialize
Building a Pennsylvania Physicians Guild (posted 10-3-97)
Focus on employed physicians (posted 11-7-97)
Becoming corportizors, not corporatizees (posted 10-3-97)
Physician-owned insurers can compete (posted 10-3-97)
How would you define quality? (posted 11-14-97)
Health care as public good, not commodity (posted 10-3-97)
How do we get there from here? (posted 11-14-97)
Getting there from here (posted 12-9-97)
The changing face of medicine (posted 10-14-97)
Regaining control of medical care (posted 10-14-97)
Corporatization as opportunity (posted 10-16-97)
Integrating the four approaches (posted 11-17-97)
Could Hillary have been right? (posted 11-10-97)
Put patients first (posted 2-9-98)
It's still not cooked (posted 2-8-98)
It's time to act! (posted 2-8-98)
Pharmaceuticals
The miracle of mass marketing (posted 1-25-98)
Clinical Trials Funding
Differences in quality? (posted 12-19-97)
Computerized Patient Records
Every MD can do this NOW! (posted 11-8-97)
HMO Coverage Denials
Exclusive Contracting
Are doctors truly furniture?
Who Needs Doctors?
Power is taken, not given
Physician Empowerment
Program for physician empowerment
Blues Merger
Public Physician Practice Management Companies
Doing it right
Managing Managed Care
Misguided managed care legislation
Physician Unions
PCMS president makes the case for unions
Physician unions: Bad for them and us
A third approach
Dr. Tsou misses the point
Building a physician union in the Delaware Valley
Unionization is worth pursuing
Chiropractor unions?
Guidelines for Routine Physical Exams
Guidelines are useless
Pick vendor that will update software
A fast & easy computerized record (posted: 8-12-97)
Medic Autochart (posted: 7-3-98)
Good Experience with Autochart (posted: 6-30-99)
Problems with Autochart (posted: 6-30-99)
Tort Reform and the CAT Fund Crisis
The Physicians' Cincinnatus Society criticism of the new law
Dr. Meier is absolutely correct
Pennsylvania Medical Society perspective
Where is the PMS?
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers' perspective
Insurers are not the only ones to blame
Insurance Department perspective
New rates may be worse than old rates
Taking exception with anonymous
Tort reform, I think not
Do not pay the CAT surcharge
Consequences of not paying surcharge
CAT Fund still caustic
Getting beyond the current turmoil
CAT Fund is only a band-aid
Ten reasons to abolish the CAT Fund (posted 10-3-97)
Support House Bill 1877 (posted 10-14-97)
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