Your Practice Made Perfect
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
146 episodes of Your Practice Made Perfect since the first episode, which aired on February 1st, 2018.
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Episode 049: Taking Your Practice Online
February 1st, 2019 | Season 1 | 25 mins 13 secs
blog, healthgrades, linked in, online presence, ratemds, vitals, yelp
Dr. Kevin Pho joins the podcast to discuss the pros and cons that social media has on the healthcare industry, clinician rating websites, and the importance of a physician’s online presence. Social media gives physicians the power to reach their patients directly, but more than this, it puts the power of knowledge at the patient’s fingertips.
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Episode 048: Get Better with Vantage
January 18th, 2019 | Season 1 | 14 mins 57 secs
information technology, practice managers, resource platform, vantage
Host Brian Fortenberry and Judy Musgrove, Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications, discuss SVMIC’s brand new resource platform, Vantage. With Vantage, SVMIC brings their online service up to the same level of their personal service. This portal has everything that SVMIC offers online, for both policyholders and practice managers.
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Episode 047: The Case of Good Medicine, Management, and Documentation
January 11th, 2019 | Season 1 | 15 mins 48 secs
breast cancer, closed claims, cyst, mammogram
In this closed claim case, a woman with a family history of breast cancer was closely monitored for 6 years. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the patient filed a lawsuit against her general surgeon. She alleged that her cancer should have been diagnosed at least eight months sooner. Learn how, in this case, it proves that even if all the right steps are taken, one is never immune to a lawsuit.
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Episode 046: Avoiding the Crash and Burn
January 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 20 mins 51 secs
doctor, family, physician burnout, prevention
Dr. Dike Drummond of The Happy MD speaks with Brian Fortenberry about physician burnout. Understanding burnout is not that simple, and Dr. Drummond helps doctors navigate circumstances that can lead to this state. He shares some practical tips on prevention and how to get out of the rut.
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Episode 045: Reviewing RVUs
December 14th, 2018 | Season 1 | 15 mins 58 secs
compensation, physician, reimbursements, relative value unit, rvus
Host Brian Fortenberry and guest Jackie Boswell discuss the ins and outs of Relative Value Units (RVUs), how they work, and how they're calculated. They discuss how important it is for physicians to be educated when it comes to RVUs, especially for compensation purposes. RVUs have a wider reach as well, being used to evaluate specialties, compare physicians, and assess practices across the nation.
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Episode 044: A Hard Pill to Swallow
December 7th, 2018 | Season 1 | 43 mins 28 secs
addition, hydrocodone, opioids, oxycodone, pills, tennessee medical foundation
Along with host Brian Fortenberry, Dr. Stephen Loyd discusses his intimate struggle with opioid addiction. For three years, Dr. Loyd was addicted to painkillers while working as a physician. In one hand, he had everything anyone would want in life. In the other, a handful of pills. He discusses how finding the Tennessee Medical Foundation helped get him out of addiction.
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Episode 043: Power to the Physicians
November 23rd, 2018 | Season 1 | 23 mins 29 secs
capitol hill, doctors day, government education, lobbyists, risk education
With host Brian Fortenberry, SVMIC Vice President of Corporate and Legal Sherie Edwards, and Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Tennessee Medical Association Yarnell Beaty, discuss medical legislation. When physicians get involved on Capitol Hill, it can really make a difference and turn the tide in legislation. They talk about how important it is to contribute to campaigns, get involved at the grassroots level, and establish relationships with elected officials so that physicians have a voice in what laws are being passed.
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Episode 042: The Case of Late Expectations
November 16th, 2018 | Season 1 | 11 mins 54 secs
closed claims, disseminated intravascular coagulation, fetal distress, hellp syndrome, neurologic damage, severe preeclampsia
When pregnant Megan was admitted to the hospital with pain at 32 weeks, the staff failed to recognize fetal distress. This resulted in a C-section performed three hours too late and the infant suffering from severe neurological damage. Brian Fortenberry and attorney Alisa Wamble discuss this closed claim case and how tunnel vision created this sad situation.
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Episode 041: Controlling Controlled Substances
November 9th, 2018 | Season 1 | 18 mins 2 secs
controlled substances, drug enforcement administration, opioids, partial filling
Brian Fortenberry and Dr. Walter Fitzgerald discuss opioids, prescriptions, and all issues that come with it. Dr. Fitzgerald brings his experience as both an attorney and a pharmacist to the discussion, covering everything from new laws regarding prescriptions to safely disposing of extra pills.
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Episode 040: Closing the Gap
November 2nd, 2018 | Season 1 | 20 mins 11 secs
care management, clinical, insurance, malpractice, narus health
Michael Burcham, CEO of Narus Health, talks with Brian Fortenberry about care management. Michael discusses finding the gaps between payer, physician, patient, and hospital, improving those gaps, and giving stakeholders a better experience. He also discusses changing the experience that people have, so that instead of healthcare happening to them, it works for them.