Practice Management

"This year, we are starting an international rotation with a focus on global health and humanitarian work," says Akanksha Mehta, MD, MS.

"What we found is that it's very difficult to raise your review on these websites, but fairly easy to drop your review," says Jake Miller, MD.

“Put another way, with Apple Vision Pro, what we're hoping to do is have our residents be able to put on a headset and walk through a case before they actually walk into an operating room,” says Vikram M. Narayan, MD.

“I think this is the future, and if we don't go down that path and we don't explore, we're not going to make it better for us and for the patients,” says Geoffrey N. Sklar, MD, FACS.

"I think it would be really nice if we did have standardized guidelines on who could serve as a chaperone," says Ellen Cahill, MD.

"If you tapped into your emergency fund for any reason this year, it is important to make sure the account is replenished," writes Jeff Witz, CFP.

"I think it requires the adequate staff, and then also the development of a practice pattern for how chaperones are used," says Ellen Cahill, MD.

"There are no formal guidelines on whether chaperone use is recommended or is mandatory," says Ellen Cahill, MD.

"If you are going to be an inclusive leader...it's important that you think about those gaps in education and hopefully try to fill those," says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.

"The communication piece is everything," says Amy Pearlman, MD.

"If the documentation supported the use of modifier –22, it should be appended," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

"Remember that whether or not it's your first time down the aisle, marriage is a celebration. Don't let all the financial and administrative details that go along with your special day spoil it," writes Jeff Witz, CFP.

"I would say the take-home message is that we found that from a patient-centered orientation, telehealth for new and established patients have comparably high satisfaction scores but provide substantially lower costs compared with in-person visits for patients with urologic cancer," says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.

"When determining which code you should use, you must consider your Medicare carrier’s published rules and commercial payer processing policies," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

"My specific career path is really not at all like my mentors, and I think that's fine, actually. It's great, because I'm doing what I want to do and not feeling constrained to go down any particular pathway," says Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc, PhD (Hon).

“I think that there will probably be much more accessible tools within the next 5 years, and almost certainly within the next 10 years,” says Yair Lotan, MD.

"That's probably the biggest thing that I would say to somebody who's interested in urology is, do you think you can get on another patient's level?" says Emily Sopko, CNP.

"I like working alongside the residents, because they've taught me pretty much everything that I know about urology," says Emily Sopko, CNP.

“So, I think we have to be conscious that when we're developing these tools that we're inclusive,” says Yair Lotan, MD.

"Often, we can do flexible cystoscopies for difficult Foley placements, or if we need to remove an indwelling stent at the bedside, I can assist with those things," says Emily Sopko, CNP.

"From the perspective of lifestyle medicine, what is most important is what the patient is most motivated to work on in the here and now," says Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc, PhD (Hon).

"I'm able to really dedicate a lot of my time to patients and families for education," says Emily Sopko, CNP.

“There's definitely a lot of hype around the concept of artificial intelligence, and I think we're in the early phases of trying to figure out where it makes sense to adopt the technology and how to incorporate into clinical care,” says Yair Lotan, MD.

“[This way, I can] educate myself and put myself in their shoes and suggest a treatment or a plan or an evaluation, and then find out what their feedback might be from a collaborative standpoint,” say Robert D. Hoy, MPAS, PA-C.

“Sometimes there's some difficulties with continuity of care, because I'm not the sole provider for that patient,” says Robert D. Hoy, MPAS, PA-C.