Have you ever noticed the initials after someone’s name? Jane Smith, PhD John Smith, BSRN, CCM Jeremiah Smith, BCPA Jenny Smith, MD, FACS … or hundreds of others! What do those initials tell you? They actually tell you much more than you might think.
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As business owners, there are several tasks that need to be handled as the new year rolls around. If you are a new business owner, you may – or may not – have a list of To Dos like I do. Here are some examples, including one seemingly tiny detail that so often gets overlooked, but can be totally off-putting to anyone who sees it. On January 1, repeating each year on my calendar, my list of tasks includes things
End-of-Year Clean Up, and a Tiny Detail That Speaks Volumes Read More »
I’m sure it seems as impossible to you as it does to me that we are almost into 2020. It’s seems like “Y2K” was just a blink of an eye ago – and here we are two decades later. Many of us are thinking about how we’ll live our lives differently in 2020 than we have in years prior. So I thought I’d share with you some of the best advice I have received in years – something I’ve worked
K.I.S.S. in the New Year Read More »
Years ago I was invited to present a talk on Patient-Doctor Communications to a group of specialists. I was just one speaker during a many-day conference for thousands of doctors who had come in from all over the world. Imagine my surprise when I was assigned to a large room, set up for 300 or more attendees. And imagine my even bigger surprise when it was standing room only! What on earth? Me? Why would so many people care what
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As someone who was raised on the importance of spelling, the fact that correct spelling seems to have gone the way of the dinosaurs is a frustration! Further: We work in a world of medical words which can challenge the ability to spell. Everyone is in a hurry, so rarely do people spell check their own writing. (And yes, I’m as guilty of that as anyone.) Device text – meaning tiny keyboards and/or autocorrect – makes some communications impossible to
Serchers Cant Spel – Let’s Make That Fact Work for Us! Read More »
