Tag: contract

When an Emergency Room Gets New Management, Relationships Come First

January 20th, 2012
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It’s no big surprise that there is anxiety when a new management group takes over an Emergency Department. The question is, what can our group do to effectively confront that anxiety? At midnight on December 31st, 2011, our group took over management of the emergency room at Bristol Hospital. The previous group had managed the ER there […]

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Posted in Hospital Partnership, Leadership, Life in the ER

Twenty Years of Change and the “View from the Box”

December 23rd, 2011
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Once, a really long time ago, before blogs if you can conceive of such a time, I embarked on a part-time writing career. My subject matter was the parade of frailty, the courage and the just plain bizarre that were to be found daily – hourly – in the ER. My first collection of essays […]

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Posted in Life in the ER