Practice Management - Cosmetic Surgery Times

Practice Management

Incognito 'patients' offer evaluation services in staff-to-patient communications

September 1, 2009
By:Bill Gillette

There's no mystery about the fact that the sagging economy has cut into the cosmetic surgery business. And mystery shopping services claim they can help practitioners reclaim some of that lost business.

Incognito 'patients' offer evaluation services in staff-to-patient communications

September 1, 2009
By:Bill Gillette

Being "super surgeon" is not realistic in today's health care environment

August 1, 2009
By:Renee Diiulio

Ignoring stress can result in surgical errors and poor outcomes, not to mention inability to handle a crisis.

Choosing and cultivating future leaders is critical to practice

August 1, 2009
By:Michelle Stephenson

Ensure your practice's long-term health by choosing and cultivating future leaders with succession management, which combines succession planning and leadership development.

Cosmetic surgeons learn leadership skills best by observation, survey shows

August 1, 2009
By:Heide Aungst

Various leading cosmetic surgeons share who has influenced them most in the area of leadership

Surgical leaders understand the balance between administering care to patients and leading a practice

August 1, 2009
By:Renee Diiulio

As health care reform continues to revolutionize medicine, physicians are being asked to take on a more "lay" CEO role to think in terms of quality and cost.

Negotiation skills and dispute resolution methods are necessary to leading an effective practice

August 1, 2009
By:Rochelle Nataloni

Negotiation and persuasion skills can't be ignored if cosmetic surgeons wish to be surgery center leaders.

Leadership and failure: You can't have one without the other

August 1, 2009

Successful leaders not only accept well-intentioned failure but they encourage it. One expert explains why failure is necessary for progress and how leaders can embrace it in themselves and those they lead.

As the practice grows, the leader of that practice must grow with it

August 1, 2009
By:Nancy A. Melville

A surgeon needs to be armed with strong leadership skills to maintain communications, strong organization and staff morale, not to mention quality of care.

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