Practice Management

"Saving and investing a modest amount regularly and early in your life can have a huge impact on your ability to reach your financial goals," writes Jeff Witz, CFP.

“The world of surgery makes a person quite disciplined,” says Martha Boone, MD.

"There is nothing in the data to suggest any widespread abuse, improper inducements, or impropriety in the specialty. Nevertheless, urologists should be aware that this is an area of continued scrutiny by Congress and watchdogs," writes Robert A. Dowling, MD.

"If you've got a difference, pay attention to the size and direction. If you have a massive difference between groups in terms of outcome, but only a small difference in terms of baseline characteristics, that's worth talking about," says Andrew J. Vickers, PhD.

"I've always written to just process emotions," says Martha Boone, MD.

"We're interested in cause; that's why we often are doing observational research. Authors never face that head on, and don't really come to grips with it," says Andrew J. Vickers, PhD.

Last year, a single health care breach involved 2 million records, but in the first half of 2023, there were 5 health care breaches of at least 3 million records each.

“I didn't want to only get coached; I thought, "Well, if I become a coach, maybe I can share this with others,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“[As] urologists and physicians, we should all appreciate AI's potential, but also understand its current limitations,” says Roei Golan.

“Listen to your body; these are the signals telling you something is out of balance,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

"Having a framework in place anticipating somebody may want to have a child in the program helps a lot," says Christine Van Horn, MD.

Doctors and medical practices are mired in administrative tasks.

"Data have shown among surgeons in multiple specialties that a good chunk of people have pain; probably around 60% of people have pain that they associate with operating," says Kristin Chrouser, MD, MPH.

"A lingering question is whether the act is increasing patient knowledge about their physicians’ receipt of payments from the industry (or whether they care)," writes Robert A. Dowling, MD.

"Some women are perceived as being less serious because they chose to build a family in training," says Christine Van Horn, MD.

"Some of the issues have to do with the stressors of the physicality of being a surgical trainee," says Christine Van Horn, MD.

Options include rolling it over into your new employer’s plan or into an IRA.

In this installment, sisters Amy Pearlman, MD, and Michelle Pearlman, MD, highlight Prime Institute, the practice they co-founded in South Florida.

"The burden of preauthorization, reimbursements not keeping up with inflation, and consequently, our abilities to staff and maintain our offices and pay our employees at appropriate levels are also affecting our ability to care for patients," said urologist Ronald P. Kaufman Jr, MD.

“Burnout is the end stage of unmanaged stress in the workplace,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

"It's been pretty consistent that our second-year urology residents are really suffering," says Amanda C. North, MD.

In total, 77.8% of Black respondents, 72.7% of Asian respondents, 57.1% of Latino respondents, and 46.5% of White respondents indicated that the racial and ethnic diversity of residents at a program influenced their decision to preference signal or sub-internship with that program.

While practice ownership has declined among physicians of all ages, the sharpest drop occurred among doctors under age 45.

“I am lucky to work for a health care system that believes in serving the patients of the Bronx,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

"We're currently putting together... a toolkit that we can give to urologists and other providers in the community to help counsel their patients on some of the different avenues that they can go down to find more affordable medications," says Brian Cortese.

Dr. Vince has an interest in disparities in urologic care, specifically among patients with prostate cancer.

With healthcare data breaches approaching a boiling point, care providers need to adopt an approach that prioritizes operational continuity.

“Learning how to disengage from stuff that can be pretty toxic and engaged in the stuff that's most meaningful, I think makes our lives better,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“I couldn't change the fact that it was going to be a few months until I had help. But I could change my own response to the situation,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

"CPT codes 50080 and 50081 describe the antegrade approach to stone removal requiring lithotripsy through a nephrostomy tract, with 50080 being reported for stones less than 2 cm in size in a single location, whereas 50081 would be reported for large or complex stones, stones in multiple locations, or stones in the ureter (such as in the example provided)," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.