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Remember that the case manager-physician relationship is like a marriage and you have to keep working at it to make it a good one, says Steve Blau, MBA, MSW, LCSW-C, director of case management for Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore.
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It's frustrating when you point out that a patient doesn't meet acute care criteria or that documentation in a chart is not complete and nothing happens, even if you take it to your physician advisor.
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When it comes to talking with physicians about documentation or admissions criteria, it's often not what you say but how you say it that helps you get an answer.
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A 2004 study published in the Annals of Family Medicine analyzed when patients want a discussion about spirituality and what they want done with the information.
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You and a colleague have authored a clinical monograph on pelvic fractures, and the article is with the journal's editor, being prepared for publication.
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It wasn't years of medical education, AIDS research, and experience that especially prepared Ruth Berggren, MD, to accept her appointment as interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas at San Antonio it was, specifically, six days in New Orleans.