Congratulations, you have found the perfect job! The chemistry is right, the pay is adequate, and the working environment is somewhat better than a sweatshop. So what’s missing? Ah yes, the contract—that little document designed to protect both parties in the event of a disagreement. Although that description sounds innocuous, employment contracts are usually written by employers and tend to be slanted to their needs, as opposed to those of the employee or contractor. Therefore, …
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It sounded like a great job. You saw the ad in the back of JUCM and contacted the person listed at the bottom. He seemed pleasant enough on the phone and the pay was what you thought was the market rate for the area. The next day, you drove over for the interview, which consisted of only four questions (the first being “If you were a tree…” and the last being “When can you start?”), toured …
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Occupational Medicine- August, 2007
The art of using the “right” words and avoiding words that tend to harm one’s sales effort is undervalued. Consider these recommendations: Use strong, descriptive, positive words. Your choice of words should reflect the image you wish to portray of your urgent care clinic, and the attributes that go along with such an image (e.g., energy, confidence, focus, and warmth). How about asking your staff to list the 10 words that reflect the most positive …
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Management of Distal Radial Fractures
Urgent message: Distal radial fractures in children can often be treated by non-orthopedists without the need for full casting in an urgent care center that can perform simple splinting, thus sparing hospital referral. Deena R. Zimmerman, MD, MPH, IBCLC, Scott Fields, MD, and Nahum Kovalski, BSc, MDCM Introduction Wrist fracture is a com-mon injury in children. Many of these fractures are buckle or torus fractures. Traditionally, treatment for buckle fractures has been short-arm casting for …
Read MoreDeveloping Data: July/August, 2007
UCA’s Survey Committee has conducted two annual member surveys, to date, designed to establish benchmarks in an industry for which data have been sorely lacking. Each month in Developing Data, we will share one or two tidbits from the second annual survey in an effort to help readers get a sense of what their peers are doing, and what kind of trends are developing asurgent care evolves. In this issue: How are some clinics employing …
Read MoreManagement of Distal Radial Fractures in Young Patients by Non-Orthopedists in an Urgent Care Center
Wrist fracture is a common injury in children. 1 Many of these fractures are buckle or torus fractures. Traditionally, treatment for buckle fractures has been short-arm casting for two to four weeks.2 However, questions have been raised as to the need for such treatment. A num- ber of recent studies have indicated that many such fractures may be managed without casting by the use of either elastic bandaging alone3 or splints.4-6 Plaster splints can easily …
Read MoreChoose Words Carefully in an Occupational Health Sales Call
The art of using the “right” words and avoiding words that tend to harm one’s sales effort is undervalued. Consider these recommendations
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JOHN SHUFELDT, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP It sounded like a great job. You saw the ad in the back of JUCM and contacted the person listed at the bottom. He seemed pleasant enough on the phone and the pay was what you thought was the market rate for the area. The next day, you drove over for the interview, which consisted of only four questions (the first being “If you were a tree…” and the …
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