Lightning Strikes Again
I wrote previously on disaster recovery planning for the medical office (and we have an audio teleseminar coming out in the near future on just this subject). If you connect to your office from home,
it’s a good idea to have a disaster recovery plan in place for your home office as well. I had a chance to personally put a plan into effect when my house was struck by lightning - for the second time in three years.
Well, it wasn’t actually a direct hit. I was awakened early one morning last week by what sounded like a mortar going off in the back yard. There was no loss of power but several electronic devices were affected: a wireless router, two switches, a satellite receiver, a digital phone, the alarm system and, oh, yes, my desktop computer. (more…)

will comment on the plight of the American health care system and the advantages of their “nationalized” health service. Yes, we certainly have our share of troubles here in the US. And if the current news is any indication, the upcoming election is shaping up to bring more uncertainties for the medical profession - regardless of which political party we are talking about.
This is really getting old. The only consolation is that for once it is getting more press coverage than in the past, mostly with the (correct) slant that these cuts will ultimately hurt Medicare beneficiaries. Several Republican senators changed their votes from their previous positions on HR 6331 to yes after receiving a lot of flack from their constituents, many of them physicians.



making changes is failing to properly read the existing corporate or office culture. An example would be a control-oriented manager coming into a company with a collaborative culture, leading to tension and resistance.