#Non-Clinical Physician Jobs

[ccrpsorg]

Non Clinical Physician Jobs: Exploring New Opportunities Outside the Clinic

Unlock Your Career Potential with Non-Clinical Physician Jobs: Exploring New Opportunities Outside the Clinic

Are you a physician looking to diversify your career paths and unlock new possibilities? Then non-clinical physician jobs may be the answer for you. With an ever-evolving demand for medical professionals outside of clinic settings, there are now more opportunities than ever to explore alternative careers in healthcare without having to sacrifice your years of learning as a doctor. Come along on this journey with us, where we’ll uncover how you can tap into heretofore untapped potential and make use of those hard-earned skills! Put aside traditional job definitions – sit back and relax, it's time to explore what could be the start of meaningful professional growth through creative exploration: pursuing that exciting non-clinical path.

the different types of non-clinical physician jobs

There are a variety of non-clinical physician jobs available in the medical field. Some of these positions include medical writer, medical director, clinical research associate, medical monitor, and pharmacovigilance officer.

A medical writer is responsible for creating scientific manuscripts, posters, and other materials. They must be able to understand complex medical information and present it in an easy-to-read format. A medical director is responsible for the overall clinical operation of a clinic or hospital. They make sure that patients receive the best possible care and that all regulations are followed. A clinical research associate (CRA) helps to design, implement, and monitor clinical trials. They work with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to make sure that the trials are run safely and effectively. A medical monitor oversees the safety of patients who are participating in a clinical trial. They ensure that any adverse effects are reported to the appropriate authorities. A pharmacovigilance officer is responsible for detecting and reporting adverse drug reactions. They work with pharmaceutical companies to make sure that all medications are safe and effective.

Nonclinical physician jobs in clinical research

Physicians have many different job options outside of the clinical setting. One such option is working in the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical jobs can be extremely lucrative, with some positions offering six-figure salaries. However, these jobs also require a great deal of experience and knowledge. Those who are interested in pursuing a career in pharmaceuticals should be sure to have a strong background in science and medicine.

Working in the pharmaceutical industry can be a very rewarding experience. Physicians who work in this field are able to help develop new treatments and medicines that can improve the lives of millions of people. They also have the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world.

The pharmaceutical industry is constantly changing, and those who work in this field must be able to keep up with the latest trends. Physicians who are interested in working in this field should make sure that they are well-versed in the latest research and developments.

The pharmaceutical industry is a rapidly growing field, and there are many opportunities for physicians who want to work in this field. Those who are interested in pursuing a career in pharmaceuticals should do their research and learn as much as they can about this exciting industry.

Tips on pursuing nonclinical physician jobs

If you're a physician who is looking for a job outside of the clinical setting, you may be wondering how to best go about pursuing those opportunities. Here are a few pieces of advice to help you out:

1. Start by doing your research. There are many different types of nonclinical physician jobs out there, so it's important to know what kind of position you're interested in before you start applying. Do some online research to learn more about the different types of jobs that are available and the skills that are required for them.

2. Network with your peers. Chances are, there are other physicians out there who have pursued nonclinical jobs and can offer you some great advice on how to make the transition. Get in touch with your professional networks and see if anyone knows of any good opportunities in the field.

3. Polish up your resume and LinkedIn profile. Since you'll be transitioning into a nonclinical career, it's important to make sure that your resume and LinkedIn profile reflect that. Make sure to highlight your relevant skills and experience, and be sure to list any courses or training that you've done in the field.

4. Go after the jobs you want. Don't be afraid to apply for jobs that may be a little outside of your comfort zone - if you're qualified for the position, there's no harm in trying! The more proactive you are in seeking out opportunities, the better chance you have of finding the perfect job for you.

resources available for nonclinical jobs

There are many resources available for doctors looking to work nonclinical jobs. One great resource is the website NonclinicalJobs.com, which is dedicated to helping doctors find nonclinical jobs. The website includes a job board with listings from hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations across the country. It also includes a blog with articles about finding nonclinical jobs, transitioning to a nonclinical career, and tips for succeeding in the job market.

Another great resource is the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The AAMC offers several resources for doctors who want to transition to a nonclinical career, including an online guide, webinars, and an annual conference. The AAMC also maintains a database of nonclinical jobs in healthcare and other industries.

Finally, doctors can reach out to their local hospital or clinic to see if they have any openings for nonclinical roles. Many hospitals and clinics are looking for nurses, medical assistants, and other professionals to help support the clinical staff.

Offer advice on how to get started in a non-clinical career with CCRPS clinical research associate, medical monitor, or pharmacovigilance certification

One great way to get started in a non-clinical career with CCRPS clinical research associate, medical monitor, or pharmacovigilance certification is to first get some experience in the field. shadowing someone in a related field can give you an idea of what the day-to-day work is like and what type of skills you need to be successful. It can also help you build connections in the industry.

Once you have some experience, look for certification programs that can help you develop the skills you need for a career in clinical research. The Clinical Research Associate (CRA) program from CCRPS, for example, is designed to give you the knowledge and training you need to work in the field. The Medical Monitor program from CCRPS is another option, and it provides training on how to conduct safety monitoring for clinical trials. Finally, the Pharmacovigilance program from CCRPS is designed to teach you about adverse event reporting and drug safety.

No matter which certification program you choose, make sure it is accredited and will provide you with the skills you need to be successful. And don't forget to continue building your network; meeting people in your industry can help you find jobs and learn about opportunities that might be a good fit for you.

#Non-Clinical Physician Jobs #Non Clinical Physician Jobs

[earthstellar]

I really like that we see Velocity, a relatively newly qualified medic, often checking notes or handling reference material on various data pads throughout MTME / Lost Light. 

I also really like that she consults frequently with Ratchet (or whoever the lead physician is at the time) whenever possible-- She’s still finding her footing and gaining professional confidence in her knowledge and skills, and it shows in little details like her tendency to refer directly to records, charts, or reference information. 

It lends a very real feeling to how the med bay staff have organised themselves; We see that Velocity often handles non-emergent outpatients (like messing with Lug/Anode or Swerve, lol) but she is also involved in emergent care when needed, almost always under the guidance / monitoring of a senior medic. 

We don’t have much canonical information about how medics might rank themselves within a med bay / battle frontline / etc., but I love that we get a look at what general practice might look like a little bit on the Lost Light, because it has a very different pacing etc. compared to the usual emergent / urgent care / battlefield aid we typically see depicted in Transformers media.

And it makes sense that we usually don’t see more calm interactions in med bays given the most TF media takes place while the war is still ongoing, lmao.

But even when things kick off and get serious on the Lost Light, there’s a sense of there being a real structure amongst the medics and it adds to the realistic feeling of their crew being from a wide variety of background with differing levels of experience, both personal and professional. 

Learning Never Ends: Velocity and Checking Notes 

I love that we see Velocity as a student, struggling to stay motivated, with Nautica helping her study.

As an example of some real world healthcare worker reference material, I included a photo of one of my personal reference flip-books, which states it’s a nursing guide but honestly it has a lot of key information in there which is super, super helpful in general! I use it even though I am not currently nursing staff, myself. 

(Check out all my tabs on there and how many pages have had to be taped onto the pages below, lmaooo) 

Everyone needs to brush up on the basics / core knowledge here and there, and depending on what a healthcare worker is doing, where they are placed, what their level of relative experience is, etc. it is just super good to have reference material available and to use it as needed. 

It’s a very real thing, for Velocity as a less experienced medic to essentially carry the data pad equivalent of such a reference flip-book with her while on duty, and to have a tendency to check definitions and other reference documentation perhaps a little more literally or to-the-letter compared to Ratchet or First Aid-- Because they both have more overall experience than Velocity does. 

At one point in the slightly blurry third set of panels above (sorry I couldn’t find a better version of this page at the moment!), Ratchet uses such a situation as a teaching moment for Velocity! 

Yes, she was right to check, and yes, she interpreted it correctly as written, but there’s additional clinical / diagnostic / treatment / care information which Ratchet has obtained through experience which may not be noted in the supplementary details for the patient diagnosis information Velocity is checking here. 

He might be more able to contextualise some details, or infer certain things, while Velocity is shown to assess primarily based solely on what is written. 

And it’s very good to adhere to what’s written! Patient charts matter. Clinical notes matter. But there may also be other things to take into consideration which may be less immediately obvious, too. We get a sense that this is the case in this scene, with Ratchet pointing out some less evident relevant information. 

Ratchet does a good job of talking this out with Velocity, and he uses the same reference material on the relevant data pad to highlight exactly what is sticking out to him and why. It’s likely he knows Velocity learns best in this way, and is teaching her in a similar way to how Nautica seems to have helped her study in medical school. 

Ratchet’s being a good teacher here, and Velocity’s response is heartbreaking, because of course we know she has professional confidence issues-- And she feels she may have missed something potentially clinically significant, which might negatively impact their patient; For example, did her lack of knowledge earlier then result in a delay in the patient receiving appropriate care? And so on. 

And it’s a very real scene, because nobody is perfect-- Minimise risk as much as possible, go in knowing as much as possible, but really she just doesn’t have a whole lot of experience yet. 

She will learn more, she will become less reliant on to-the-letter reference checking, and will gradually get more comfortable and capable in assessing things independently as she gains experience and internalises the input from her fellow medics.

But of course, nobody is perfect, and it does hurt when there was just something you didn’t know yet, which may have been good to identify earlier if possible at that time. 

With more knowledge and experience, this will happen less and less often. 

We see her gradually get a little better with her bedside manner, and develop a little more skill in addressing patients; 

Both her and Nautica struggle to address Ravage appropriately, for example, but soon after she is corrected it is clear that she gets a better grasp of how to speak to him as her patient and in general. 

Lug/Anode points out that Velocity assumes gender in one case, second set of panels above; A big no-no! 

But I feel like towards the end of Lost Light, Velocity would no longer be as inclined to do such a thing, as her experience with Ravage may have helped her understand better that with a diverse patient cohort comes a greater need for emphasis on respecting patient identity and being more willing to start engaging with a patient without preconceptions or assumptions-- Something that is extremely important for her to learn and internalise all around. 

It is entirely possible that on Caminus, most of her teachers, peers, and patients were likely almost all fellow Camiens, with similar social/cultural backgrounds and concepts of identity within that framework.

So again, it’s all about experience, and I get the sense that Velocity is very much learning and integrating what she is gaining from experience into practice. 

She does need more experience, guidance, and to develop a little more confidence. But she’s come a really long way, and she’s on the right path. <3 

TL;DR I love Velocity and I will never shut up about space robot medics 

Hopefully this was interesting for someone!!! <3 

#tf velocity #idw velocity #mtmte #lost light #idw 1 #idw transformers #maccadam #maccadams #long post #transformers analysis #analysis post #med bay #med bay posting #tf analysis #idw ratchet #tf ratchet

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

What working is like during a pandemic 3 years on.

It still sucks. Less scary, but still scary.

I work a variety of as-needed-roles now as a hospitalist or physician. Sometimes I'm still a physician. Other times it's a COVID physician. In hospital. Or in out patients, which is a mix of telehealth, phone or in person. Just depends on the needs of the community at the time.

With how overloaded the system is (remember it was set up for non-pandemic times, we now have to have extra beds for COVID all the time), even when I'm not delegated the task of seeing COVID patients my main job seems to be getting patients out of the ED as fast as possible. For the sake of everybody essentially.

I'm not sure how many patients realize that when they show up to hospital, there's now a good chance they're exposing themselves to the COVID population we have (some mask up, some don't, of course we offer masks when they get to triage, but if you have delirious patients it's nigh impossible to mask in the halls while you wheel them to isolation).

It's not terribly difficult to treat COVID - it's the same set of widely accepted treatments now. We add to it as new ones get approved. It's just a struggle when despite all we do, patients still deteriorate. This is, however, a minority of cases - usually the immunosuppressed or the unvaccinated. i.e. lacking as sufficient immune system to fight off the virus even with the best medications on board.

You'll often hear doctors throw around that CT or CAT scans of the chest will resemble what looks like poured concrete in the lungs. And it's accurate, this is why patients struggle to breath or get oxygen in. All the inflammation and debris from the virus or from fighting the virus fills the lungs like concrete.

Air is black on the CT scans, white is bad. white means there's no space for oxygen to diffuse into tissues.

Image Source: ABC News

Once it gets this far, it takes weeks to months for our bodies to clear away the debris. It's a lot of long term rehabilitation, whether in hospital or in outpatients with occupational therapy, physiotherapy etc. Time off work. Breathing takes work, breathing is exhausting. So you re-learn how to breath with compromised lungs as they heal. You re-learn how to do simple tasks like shopping, showering, while you have long term breathing difficulties. It's like seeing the 20-30 years of smoking damage to the lungs occur in a few days.

Then I go from work to the community in which I live. There's no mask mandate so maybe 50% of the people around me mask up - voluntarily. It's a strange dichotomy. But it's started to feel more normal.

In outpatients I see a lot of long COVID, just in general in outpatients-anything-now. Just simply refers to persisting symptoms of COVID long past the initial infection, by weeks to months. Sometimes 1-2 years, since whenever the first outbreak occurred.

The previously young and healthy are suddenly feeling breathless and helpless as a result. I feel terrible, to have to suddenly welcome them into the fold of chronic illness and it's ability to destabilize everything they know. Many never had to go to hospital, they just had mild symptoms, that got worse or never went away. I spend a lot of time confirming what they have is long COVID and acknowledging it's existence, and that they're not alone. many are millenlials who've already joined online forums or googled it to death. They don't approach conversations as know-it-alls, on the contrary, you get a frank discussion.

I would, however, emphasize using reputable resources, like local government health websites catering the general public or other institution backed articles. For instance, Cleveland Clinic or Johns Hopkins. It's okay to be critical or skeptical of the information out there, but be sensible about it. Filter through the noise to the expert advice. The Curbsiders has a great podcast on LongCOVID and what dedicated outpatient LongCOVID clinics are like. Mainly rehabilitation focused.

It's a tough one, outpatient clinics. most will have not actually been to hospital, rather have been referred by the ED or their local PCP. Tough in the sense of the confusion they have - they haven't been to hospital. They had it mild. And yet they're still unwell while the rest of the world moves on without them. The rest of their family may have recovered. But they haven't. Many are in their peak of their careers, work lives or personal lives (young parents with young kids). And now they have to slow down as if they're already past prime. Most of the time it is temporary. If not unusual. I mean, you don't see this with the flu or common cold.

#covid #medblrs #medblr

[thefleetsfinest]

✧˖° → I ain't sure what I'm trying to prove

When Dr. Leonard McCoy moved to New York City from his little small town in Georgia all he had left was his BONES. Managing to reach a year sober he decided that in order to keep the momentum going that he needed to leave home. So when he got a job offer as an ER general surgeon at New York’s Presbyterian he took it.

Working out the custody with Joceyln had been a bitch and a half, but ULTIMATELY they decided that Leonard would have her for the summers and every other Christmas. He managed to pack up his entire life into a handful of boxes that he had shipped to his little apartment in Brooklyn.

However despite running from his problems, his nightmares still haunted him and he still STRUGGLED with his sobriety. Not only over the death of his father and the hand he played in it but also having to face all of the religious trauma that comes from having grown up in the evangelical small town.

But he is trying to do better. So he DESPERATELY seeks out someway to ABSOLVE his guilt was how he ended up at The Night Nurse’s Clinic. He had heard rumors of it in the ER, a clinic that helped official heroes, vigilantes and villains alike and not asking for a dime, and he went looking.

Having laid eyes on the clinic himself he offered up his services as emergency physician, emergency surgeon, and even as a psychiatrist if anyone just needed someone with a fancy degree to talk them like they are a human being. At first he was balancing both working at the hospital and the clinic, but there was just something about the clinic (and maybe someone) that just felt like it was where he was suppose to be.

THANKFULLY Leonard is a talented enough surgeon that he is able to manage a part time schedule of sorts with the hospital that allowed him to pick and choose his patients as long as he signed a NON-COMPETE contract so he wasn’t allowed to take his ‘LEGENDARY HANDS’ to any other of the major hospitals in the state. (Small tiny clinics excluded from said contracts of course.)

So this way he can afford his apartment, and help fund supplies into the clinic and this is where anyone who is looking for a grumpy southern doctor whose managed to find himself a quiet corner amongst heroes and villains in the heart of New York City.

✧˖° → Important Notes :

This verse is a single ship verse with @oceansfirst 's Dr. Linda Carter

Leonard is a recovering alcoholic and without having to aggressively and violently face his biggest phobia on a daily basis he can't even be trusted to have one drink much like a certain purple wearing archer.

Leonard has weirdly become Clint's AA sponsor, and the two know secrets about one another that they will take to the grave.

He still has Luna because i make the rules.

#✧˖° → I ain't sure what I'm trying to prove [ 616 Verse ]

[medsocionwheels]

Compliance, per the two main approaches to medical sociology

Sociology in medicine is research that’s of interest to medical professionals, medical educators, medical scientists— things that are important to medicine as an institution.

Sociology of medicine tends to be research of interest to the general scientific field of sociology, not only sociologists who study matters of medicine, health, illness, healthcare, and disability. Importantly, it is not that medicine is simply disinterested in sociology of medicine, the institution of medicine sometimes has a vested interest in silencing or arguing against sociology of medicine. Sociology of medicine may not be useful to medical professionals, but if, for example, sociology of medicine is critiquing medical practice, as is often the case, it might move beyond useless to being perceived as offensive.

To further explore the difference between sociology in versus of medicine, let’s take the issue of compliance.

From the medical perspective, patient compliance is vital for successful medical practice and treatment. if your patient is not listening to you–for example, if they’re not taking their medication, and that medication is supposed to get them better, than you are going to have a much more difficult time treating that patient, and thus, a much harder time doing your job, than if the patient “complied” with your treatment plan. Same thing if your patient won’t have surgery. Well, if operating is the way that you do your job and the patient refuses, you cannot do your job as well. So, sociology in medicine would examine compliance with this medical perspective in mind. Sociology in medicine might investigate the barriers to patient compliance, and they might ask about these barriers in terms of patient behavior, asking something like "why are these patients non-compliant?" with the goal of identifying things that can be addressed to help patients better comply, so that medical professionals can have better chances of success when trying to do their jobs.

Now, moving to sociology of medicine—the greater field of sociology is interested in issues of power and inequality. When examining compliance in terms of power and inequality, we might look at something like physician control over patients, which would contribute to areas of sociology beyond medical sociology, such as the larger sociological literature on deviance and social control.

From this perspective, physicians offer something that patients cannot obtain on their own—prescription medications, surgery, imaging…these are all things that are considered both illegal and dangerous when obtained from non-credentialed entities. This means patients must be compliant to avoid severe consequences, like physical injury, disability, or even death. Healthcare providers hold power to help people feel better when they have few, if any, safe alternatives.

Instead of looking at compliance as inherently positive or necessary, we can critique the concept, and most importantly, the continued endorsement of compliance as “positive” and “necessary” by credentialed actors in medicine. So, sociology of medicine, similarly to sociology in medicine, may examine barriers to compliance, but because it does not assume compliance is necessary or helpful to the patient, it leaves room to explore the patient experience. Sociology of medicine can explore things like mistrust of medical professionals, experiences with bias and discrimination in the clinical encounter, and the patient’s understanding of a potential treatment as helpful versus their belief that the treatment is useless (independent of the science on said treatment’s effectiveness).

So, while sociology in medicine and sociology of medicine might both be interested in the question of “why do patients become noncompliant,” sociology in medicine might approach that question with the intent of identifying something that will lead to increased compliance, whereas sociology of medicine may approach the question in terms of medical harm, so not taking the assumption that compliance is positive, instead, taking the more skeptical view that compliance might be an exercise of power on the part of the healthcare provider over the patient and focusing on issues like the potential for patterns of exploitation and/or harm of certain groups of patients with shared characteristics. Sociology of medicine might ask whether healthcare providers, because they are powerful, are inherently good or right. Sociology in medicine would probably not ask this question at all, instead assuming the answer to be "yes"

#sociology #studyblr #phdblr #social science #medblr #health science #research #paradigm #medical sociology #sociology of medicine #sociology in medicine #compliance #power #inequality #deviance #social control #medical sociology 101 #Youtube

[ucsdhealthsciences]

Pharmacists at Higher Risk of Suicide than General Population

The pandemic put a spotlight on burnout and suicide among physicians and nurses, but until now, less was known about the mental health of pharmacists.

In the first study to report pharmacist suicide rates in the United States, a team of researchers led by Kelly C. Lee, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, found that suicide rates are higher among pharmacists compared to non-pharmacists, at an approximate rate of 20 per 100,000 pharmacists compared to 12 per 100,000 in the general population. Results of the longitudinal study were published May 13, 2022 in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.

The most common means of suicide in this population was firearms, followed by poisoning and suffocation. The prevalence of firearm usage was similar between pharmacists and the general population, but poisoning via benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opioids was more frequent among pharmacists.

The data also provide some insight into contributing factors, including a history of mental illness and a high prevalence of job problems. Job problems are the most common feature of suicides across health care professions.

For pharmacists, Lee said job problems reflect significant changes in the industry in recent years, with more pharmacists employed by hospitals and chain retailers than small, private pharmacies more common in the past. The responsibilities of a pharmacist have also grown considerably, with larger volumes of pharmaceuticals to dispense and increasing demands to administer vaccines and other health care services.

“Pharmacists have many more responsibilities now, but are expected to do them with the same resources and compensation they had 20 years ago,” said Lee. “And with strict monitoring from state and federal regulatory boards, pharmacists are expected to perform in a fast-paced environment with perfect accuracy. It’s difficult for any human to keep up with that pressure.”

Future research will further evaluate which job problems have the biggest impact and how the field can better respond. In the meantime, Lee advised pharmacists to encourage help-seeking behaviors amongst themselves and their colleagues.

“Mental health is still highly stigmatized, and often even more so among health professionals,” said Lee. “Even though we should know better, there is such an expectation to appear strong, capable and reliable in our roles that we struggle to admit any vulnerabilities. It’s time to take a look at what our jobs are doing to us and how we can better support each other, or we are going to lose our best pharmacists.”

— Nicole Mlynaryk

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

#suicide cw #science #medicine #mental health #psychiatry #pharmacy #pandemic #mental health crisis #self harm #health care industry #health care professionals #academic medicine #ucsd #uc san diego

[scientia-rex]

dr. kristophine complains ad nauseam about the financial realities of clinical practice in the US medical system under late-stage capitalism

All this bullshit with work is such an ADULT problem. God, I miss when my problems were less complicated. "We should have a 10% pay rate differential for less desirable shifts, such as evenings and weekends, and this should apply to Advance Practice Clinicians (Physician Assistant/Associates as well as Nurse Practitioners) in addition to physicians (MD/DO), and the organization has already acknowledged the need to incentivize these shifts by providing a pay differential for MAs for these same shifts." Shouldn't even be a question. It's gonna cost the clinic 80 bucks a week for the evening shifts and another 80 bucks for the Saturday shifts, and they'll make more than enough to cover that, they just don't like it because nobody's pushed back who had the level of institutional heft that I do as an MD.

This is what I mean by nickel and diming us to death: I make 92 dollars an hour (although since I'm salaried, that's just flat-out not even close to true because I work WAY more hours than the "32 clinical hours" that's considered a full-time workweek because they KNOW I'm working at LEAST another 8 hours of non-patient-contact time on paperwork and frankly it's usually a LOT more), and in an hour if I see two 15-minute visits and one 30-minute visit, depending on what services I provide, how I document, and how I put in the diagnostic and billing codes, the clinic could easily be making 300-400 dollars. Now, they also have to pay my MA, which is going to run them another 20 bucks an hour (because we're underpaying our MAs), staff the front desks, staff the billing department (who! fun fact! once threatened to send ME, A PHYSICIAN EMPLOYED AT THEIR OWN CLINIC, TO COLLECTIONS, after I had SPECIFICALLY ASKED HOW TO PAY THE CHARGES I ACCEPTED WHILE I DISPUTED THE OTHERS WITH MY INSURANCE COMPANY), staff administration (I guess they do stuff...), pay for the building, keep the lights on, buy medical supplies, pay for Janitorial, etc. So this is a LONG way from pure profit. But I am worth a SHIT TON of money to them. If I don't see patients, they can't collect. I'm one of 10 physicians at the clinic currently, if I have the math right, and since I've teamed up with 2 other docs who have been asked to work evening and Saturday shifts without differential compensation, that means 30% of us are now pushing for something that will cost admin very little comparatively and greatly increase satisfaction. (This is also why residents need to understand how much power they hold in their final year, when they're looking at being recruited--you can change a clinic's approach to recruiting. Not kidding. Ask them about what they're doing for racial justice, or LGBTQIA+ rights, and you can make them care, because you are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to them if they can recruit you and you stay. I probably see around 4,000 patient visits a year. Most will "cost" over a hundred bucks, whether it's the patient or the insurance company covering it. Do that math.)

I still think they're being SUPER short-sighted by not working harder to improve staff satisfaction among the APCs, because APCs have lower salaries than physicians and make damn near as much for the clinic, soooooo they need to get their heads out of their assess and MAKE NICE, because there's legislation pending that would make insurance companies cough up as much for APC visits as MD/DO visits. But admin did NOT like this advice from me.

Anyway, I've ruined my whole weekend stewing about the VERY nasty and emotional response from our CMO, and the fact that we have a contract negotiation meeting coming up Tuesday night, and the part where I really, really don't want to have to change jobs because I LIKE my peers and I LIKE my patients and I have a vested financial interest (my loan repayment program right now is contingent on this employment and ALSO I don't want to have to pay back my recruitment bonus), but also, if they try to fuck me over because I asked for 20 bucks a night extra when I work the late shift, they can kiss my ass, I can and will go work for our competitor.

Having power ALSO means having RESPONSIBILITY? What kind of bullshit--

#the attending dr. kristophine

[ganymedian]

I cannot thank you enough for your post on addiction/harm reduction. I've always supported harm reduction, but recently, it's become a bit more personal.

I just wish our society would treat drug users like humans. Let them have jobs. Let them have privacy. And yeah, let them have safe ways of accessing their drug of choice. Hell, not just safe, I want them to have safe and non-judgmental ways. I don't want to condone it, but the last thing I want any addict to ever feel is worse.

I want them to love themselves. Because they are worthy of being loved. They are people. They are deserving of respect and all the human rights we would give our friendly neighbors. They deserve this, and it's not because they use drugs, but because it shouldn't matter if they use drugs. They're people. They're humans, with families, with friends, with lives of their own. With childhoods, with memories, with smells that make them nostalgic.

I just wish our society would let drug-users be happy to be themselves. And maybe then, they'd find it easier to stop using drugs. It wouldn't be easy, and not all of them would. But at least we wouldn't make it awful to exist in society.

I appreciate your message!

Not many realize that the path to better outcomes is not relying on law enforcement. We spend so much money as a nation on busting drug crimes because it feels good to point at something physical and blame the problem on it. Drugs are bad, ergo, people who use it are punishable. Drug users being seen in a public space are treated as dangerous. The space they occupy becomes of lower worth. Cities are sectioned off. Poor mill towns where the jobs left 3 decades ago: drugs are the only enrichment some people get to have. People who reach sobriety are handled like time bombs. How could we treat another person like this?

Another good harm reduction facility that I want to touch upon briefly: Methadone clinics.

Many blame my town’s methadone clinic for creating a drug problem, or exacerbating the problem it already had. This is a misunderstanding of their purpose. Methadone clinics are offices where people with opioid dependence can be monitored by a physician and pulled off short acting opioids and put on methadone, which makes withdrawal easier to manage because it’s longer acting. They also provide counseling, and other tools to help people with opioid dependence function. They reduce the frequency that drug users end up in the ER. They reduce drug related crime by reducing the need to seek street drugs.

Thank you for listening to my rants!

#drugs cw #death cw

[couldntbedamned]

Baby, You Don’t Gotta Fight - 6

Summary: Dr. Christine Palmer is just living her life, content in her job as a trauma surgeon and happily moonlighting as Peter Parker’s general physician at her old friend Stephen’s request.

One evening as she finishes up examining Peter, she encounters the force of nature that’s Sharon Carter, who seems to have a reckless streak a mile wide.

She’s not sure what to make of the spy-turned-Avenger, but she can tell Sharon’s hurting, and Christine’s healing nature won’t be ignored.

AO3 Tags/Warnings:  Background Relationships, Awesome Christine Palmer, Snarky Sharon Carter, Peter Parker is a Good Bro, Stephen Strange is a Good Bro, Blood and Injury, Medical Procedures, Field Medicine, Sharon Carter Needs a Hug, SHIELD-critical, mild (non-explicit) sexual content, Sharon Carter Loves Burgers, emotional constipation, ethics, 

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Chapter 6

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Christine's week did not improve after that disaster of an ‘it's not-a-date.’

Sharon didn't return her calls, not that she blamed the woman she'd rejected. Stephen was off doing stuff for his not-a-cult, so she couldn't exactly call and bitch to him about how horribly things had gone. Attempts at sorting her mind out while working on the lap blanket she was crocheting turned out to be a bust and she’d had to unravel a grand total of thirty rows because she was so agitated. All that was left to do was attend even more hot yoga classes and pick up shifts at a volunteer clinic until it was time to go back to MetroGen.

She'd done the right thing.

Obviously.

Doctor-patient romances were a huge violation of ethics. Even if she didn't lose her license, she'd be reprimanded at the least and kiss any hope of a promotion goodbye. She didn't play fast and loose with the rules unless a patient's life was on the line.

Still, she couldn't free her mind from the memory of Sharon’s walls shooting back up and all the playfulness leaving her eyes.

Christine had done that.

Well done, Dr. Palmer.

Stephen showed up at her apartment the following Friday, bearing scotch, wine, and an obscenely decadent four-layer chocolate cake. He looked as wrecked as she felt and wordlessly, she let him in.

He was well-acquainted with her apartment and made quick work of pouring them drinks and cutting a couple of slices of cake. When he returned from the kitchen, he gave her a glass and a plate and then collapsed onto the couch.

At least it was getting some use, now. She hadn't been able to sit on it since Sharon had been there.

“Peter's back at school?” she asked.

Stephen took a long, deep drink of his wine. “Yes.”

“It's only two more years,” she said.

He glared at her. “With my luck, he'll decide to go to grad school. And then go on to earn a Ph.D.”

She snorted. “Really? Stephen, he's beyond ready to be done with school. He's not going to choose to keep at it once he graduates.”

Stephen didn't say anything for a long time. They just sat, drank, and ate their cake.

“He should,” Stephen finally said. “He's fucking brilliant and should get a master’s at least.” He sighed. “Instead, he's more concerned with finishing college so he doesn't have to be away from me.”

“Oh, get over yourself,” she told him with a roll of her eyes. “The reason why he’s so eager to finish college is so he can be Spider-Man again!”

“He's never stopped being Spider-Man,” Stephen argued.

“He hardly ever goes out unless the Avengers call him,” she said. “You are out fighting more than Spider-Man is, and you're not even an Avenger.”

“Thank the Vishanti for small favors,” Stephen muttered into his glass.

“At least we’re both miserable,” she said with a sigh.

He frowned at her over the rim of his glass. “What do you have to be miserable about?”

“I was on what promised to be a wonderful date with Sharon and then I ruined it by telling her I can’t date her,” she admitted.

He was silent for a few heartbeats and then he started laughing. She waited for him to stop; he didn’t. “You’re serious?” he finally asked minutes later, still laughing so hard tears were running down his reddened face.

“She’s a patient!” Christine snapped. “I can’t date a patient, Stephen! You know that!”

Stephen shook his head, still laughing. “Oh, this is too good to be true.”

“I hate you sometimes,” she said with a sniff.

He got himself under control, though his shoulders still shook. “No, you don’t,” he said with a raised brow. “You love me.” Ugh, his tone was so smug!

She sat her drink down and folded her arms. “Right now, I can’t remember just why that is.”

He sat up, gave her his full attention. “Because as it stands, I know you better than anyone else ever has. You didn’t say no because of ethics, Christine. You said no because if you dated a wild card like Sharon, there’s every chance it all would be out of your control.”

“I don’t wan-”

“You feel the need to hold the knife just as much as I do,” Stephen interrupted. “Luckily for me, Peter enjoys my control issues. You don’t know if Sharon would be okay with yours, so you’ve decided to just not find out.”

She couldn’t think of anything suitable to say in reply. She liked consistency, order, and control. As a trauma surgeon in MetroGen’s ER, she was constantly fighting for those things. She loved that fight in her work; she didn’t want it in her day-to-day life. Sharon would, she suspected, make it a fight.

Damn it all, he was right!

She narrowed her eyes. “Yes, well, your dad’s a ho.”

He let out a bark of laughter. “You know I’m right.”

“Yes,” she admitted, finally. “You are.”

“What are you going to do about it?” Stephen asked after refilling their drinks and getting them each another slice of cake.

She sighed. “I have no idea. Chances are she's so upset with me I'll end up sleeping with the fishes.”

Stephen did something he almost never did… he rolled his eyes. “She's a spy, Christine, not some mafia hit woman!”

“For all I know there's a lot of overlap between the two!” she argued.

“Maybe just give her a call when she gets back. Invite her out for coffee, explain that you're an idiot and hope she takes pity on you.”

She narrowed her eyes. “What do you mean when she gets back?”

“Peter had one last team training day this week before leaving for school. Sharon wasn't there. Apparently, she went on a solo mission and isn't expected back until late next week at the earliest.”

“A mission?” She squawked. “Her knee still needs time to heal! So do her ribs!”

“She went for a session in the Cradle that Stark’s Dr. Cho is so fond of. Then she shipped out to parts unknown.”

Any appetite she'd had for the delicious cake left. “She's going to get herself hurt,” she said quietly.

“That's probably what she's hoping for,” Stephen agreed.

“This is all my fault.”

“No, her poor coping mechanisms are on her,” he said sternly.

Christine narrowed her eyes at him. His gaze was equally unimpressed.

“She’s a grown woman capable of making her own choices,” he said. “If she gets her feelings hurt and decides to risk injury by being reckless, that’s her fault.”

“Then why do I feel so guilty?” she asked, almost to herself.

“Because it’s who you are,” Stephen said. He raised his wine glass to her as if in toast. “Dr. Christine Palmer, Savior of the Broken, the Beaten, and the Damned.”

Christine couldn’t help but laugh a little. “See, this is how I know you’re getting tipsy; you don’t quote that band unless you’ve had a few.”

“Better tipsy here with you than a depressed manic roaming the halls of the Sanctum, upset because his boyfriend is away at college.”

“True,” she conceded.

There was a chime and Stephen pulled his phone out. He read the display, smiled. Then he tucked the phone away, used magic to refill both of their glasses, and promptly slammed his back.

“You better have a hangover cure,” she warned after she drank hers down as well.

“It was one of the first spells I taught myself,” he assured her. “Besides, I have to be sober when I arrive at Kamar-Taj tomorrow for what Wong calls my Annual Moping Tour.”

She snorted, then burst out with laughter at his resulting scowl.

“We really are the most hopeless pair of friends, aren’t we?” she asked once she’d gotten herself under control.

Stephen refilled their glasses. “We are.”

A couple of weeks later, Christine was more than surprised to see a patient in an ER bay. Well, it wasn’t that there was a patient to see - it was the ER, after all. It was that this patient was guarded by a tall man Christine recognized as Sgt. Barnes - known Avenger.

“I don’t need to be here,” the woman said to him, irate. “I’m fine.”

“You took a knife to the shoulder,” Barnes argued.

“Barely,” she said flippantly. “I’m still breathing, aren’t I?”

“Despite your best efforts,” Barnes bit out. “Swear I lost one blond punk with a death wish and gained another.”

“Good afternoon,” Christine said, stepping around the curtain. She looked at the tablet with the woman’s information. “How can I help you, Ms…Delia Unwin?”

Barnes rolled his eyes, muttered something under his breath.

The face was different, and the hair was a dark brown instead of golden blond. Her eyes weren’t a comforting rich brown, but a dull green. But the annoyance in her low voice didn’t lie. The woman on the stretcher was, somehow, Sharon. She was sure of it.

“Single puncture wound,” ‘Delia’ said, holding a towel to her shoulder. It was steadily blooming with red. “I’d patched it the other day, but the stitches tore.”

“And you’re certain there’s no internal damage?” Christine asked, pulling on a pair of gloves.

“Sticking a finger in there should confirm it,” Delia said flippantly. “This is so unnecessary. I’m taking you away from people who actually need your help. It’s not my first time getting stabbed, and I know how to treat it. Dudley Do-Right here is just overreacting.”

Christine looked to Barnes.

“James Barnes,” he said, holding out his right hand to shake. “Feel free to call me James. And I’m not overreacting. I’ve seen injuries like this look harmless enough only to end up killing the person a few days later.”

“And now because you’ve brought me to a hospital, there’s a good chance the whole little skirmish is going to be reported and investigated.” She glared at James. “Thank you for that.”

James leaned down and Christine could hear the challenge in his low voice. “If the cover you’re using is as good as it should be, it won’t be an issue, now, will it?”

Delia-Sharon looked as if she wanted to stab the man.

Christine closed her eyes, counted to ten, released her breath. She pleaded with whatever cosmic power might be listening for patience. How did she keep getting wrapped up in It’s-Not-Avengers-Business with Avengers?

Between herself, a nurse named Robin who’d been at MetroGen for more than twenty years and had seen it all, and James keeping ‘Ms. Delia Unwin’ from starting a fire to sneak out in a laundry cart - the wound was cleaned, packed, and dressed. She wrote a prescription for another round of antibiotics and deliberately handed it to James, who shot a smug smirk at Delia-Sharon.

“Taking the customer satisfaction survey this place sends to me is going to be so much fun,” Delia-Sharon muttered.

“That’s good to hear,” Christine said, deliberately cheerful. She used the stylus to make notes on the patient chart with a bit more force than was strictly needed. “I print the best ones and hang them up in our break room.”

“It’d have to be impressive to top the hemorrhoid cream-toothpaste rant of ‘14,” nurse Robin said with a fond glance in the direction of the break room.

“That one was a doozy,” Christine agreed. “I think 2012’s “virgins can’t be allergic to latex” complaint might be my favorite, though.”

Robin started going over discharge instructions with Delia-Sharon and James deftly moved Christine out of the room.

“I don’t know how to help her,” he said quietly.

Christine felt the pang in her heart. “I’m not sure what to tell you,” she said. “Does she confide in anyone?”

He shook his head. “She’s not exactly the trusting type. Can’t say I blame her; I’m the same way.”

“Maybe just tell her you're there for her,” she suggested. “I don’t know much about your lives, or anything about what you do, but maybe knowing she has someone she can talk to might help.”

“She’s not exactly a songbird,” he said. Then, seeing Christine’s blank look, clarified, “she’s not a big talker.”

“She didn’t seem to mind talking to me,” Christine said thoughtfully.

“And just how deep did she go?” he asked knowingly. “I’m guessing it was mostly sarcasm and nothing that told you anything real about her.”

He…wasn’t wrong, she realized. “It sounds like a lonely way to live,” she said finally.

“She’d tell you it's kept her alive.”

“Alright,” Delia-Sharon said, walking out of the bay before Christine could answer. “We’re outta here. Doc, thanks for the band aid and the drugs. Have a good one.” She looked at James. “If you take me anywhere but home, so help me, that arm is coming off and going up your ass.”

James grinned. “Such a sweet talker, aren’t ya, Doll?” He nodded at Christine. “Thanks.”

Christine watched them leave, James snatching the picked-from-his-pocket prescription away from Delia-Sharon before she could throw the waded up ball she’d made with it into a trashcan.

Was this really what their lives were like?

And if so, why wasn’t she inclined to run for the hills?

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[sidenotelife]

Why I left the physician-scientist track

I don't get the physician-scientist job. I mean… I get it, but I don't get it. And it all makes me sad. Let me try to explain. 

About a month ago I graduated residency and over the past year I poured mental energy into analyzing my first post-training job. I browsed all sorts of jobs in all sorts of places, but what I really wanted was an academic job. For years I’ve wanted a job that combined interesting and helpful. I wanted to help people that I was uniquely suited to help, people that wouldn’t get help without me. I also wanted the job to be intellectually stimulating, and sometime around 10 years ago I decided the best path was the academic physician-scientist. I went to an MD PhD program, got a PhD in molecular biology, competed for NIH grants, and developed a coherent vision for how my clinical and research worlds would overlap. When it came time to my job search I spent a whole lot of time cold-emailing department chairs and various administrators about the vague possibility of a physician-scientist job. Most of the conversations went nowhere but the rare conversation progressed a little. sidenote - I should say that the kind of physician-scientist I wanted to be was kind of a weird niche. I wanted to be a family medicine clinician working on the molecular mechanisms of alcohol and drugs affecting the placenta. My vision was that as a family medicine physician I would take care of women during pregnancy, take care of kids with developmental problems, and also manage substance use disorders. Maybe this was too broad of a clinical interest and maybe family medicine wasn’t the best specialty for research but I also thought this was kind of a creative way that I could use my basic science skills to help understand these complex patients that are getting lost in the cracks of the medical treatment behemoth. But either way, you can probably imagine that this work is kind of a niche within a niche and there were very few options of academic medical centers where I found suitable basic science mentors and supportive clinical departments. I think this was a major pitfall of my job search and I think (maybe naively) that if I had followed a more traditional track it would’ve been easier. 

Anyways, when the conversations with department chairs and scientists progressed, it ultimately fizzled out when we got to figuring out who would pay for what and how much I would get paid. sidenote - During my years of MD PhD training I heard the buzzword "protected research time" about a million times. It was drilled into us. When we finally got to the point of looking for a post-training job we needed that protected research time. We needed to constantly be on the guard against administrative duties and clinical departments encroaching on our precious protected research time. I get it. The basic research life is such a grind. When I was a grad student in the lab I was working longer than I did during residency if you can even believe that. And even at that level I felt like I was just barely on the track to make it as a professional physician-scientist. So when I was looking for a physician-scientist job I asked for one or max two clinical days a week. My logic was that in the beginning of my career I needed as much protected research time as I could get so I could get grants to pay other people to help execute my research vision. This turned out to be quite the challenge.

This job search was when I finally understood what protected research time means. It’s basically one of two things: 1) Academic departments gambling their little money on young researchers or 2) Young researchers working for free. The end goal of a physician-scientist is for us to obtain grants that pay our salaries while we participate in non-clinical activities like research, but there’s kind of a conundrum there. How are we supposed to get those grants without some initial salary support? When I talked to clinical departments they essentially had no seed money to offer me and they had the idea that I would work 3 or 4 days a week in the clinic. When I talked to research PIs they had no interest in funding a 1 day a week postdoc and thought they could scrounge together some salary from institutional research grants but of course this was a maybe, in the future, kind of thing, so I’d have to start out by either working for free while I waited for the possibility of eventual funding or agree to do a fellowship where my research time would be protected, except my compensation for my clinical work would be severely reduced. 

I didn’t love this idea, mainly because I just found it fundamentally unfair. Why would I, a fully-trained clinician, willingly give up $200,000 a year in salary, the stability of a long-term job, and continue doing other people’s grunt work to have 2 or 3 days a week dedicated to research? That’s the cost of pursuing a career as a physician-scientist? Is that reasonable? I mean, I get it. We do it because we love the work, or because of our noble commitment to our patients. and maybe I just lost that drive, but I just don’t think it’s sustainable to have an entire arm of the biomedical world depend on the good will of hard-working individuals. It’s already hard enough to find physician-scientists but I think the to-be physician-scientists are going to be increasingly frustrated with the career track. I just don’t see millennial or gen Z-ers wanting to put up with all the shit that comes with being a medical trainee for all the extra years only to get paid less than their peers for doing more work. Where I live it’s almost becoming a norm for physicians to work 4 days a week. I can’t even imagine convincing residents to sign up to work the 10 days a week it would take to manage the two full-time jobs of physician-science. 

Putting aside the question of whether people will go into physician-science, I think the major question facing physician-scientists of the future is whether they actually provides added value. I get the idea, physician-scientists are supposed to bridge the bench-to-bedside gap but it’s usually not that simple. The process is incredibly expensive, complicated, and time-intensive. It’s easily too much for one individual and accordingly a lot of this is driven by pharmaceutical companies. In my personal situation the actual mechanics of being in the clinic and doing basic research work just didn’t make sense. All the time I put towards western blots is just time for my clinical skills to wilt away and all the time I put towards dictating a physical exam is time spent away from another experiment. I would argue the only reason I could add value as a physician-scientist is if I did both of those jobs but got paid for one, which really only helps the bottom line of academic centers. And I hated that prospect. If I was sacrificing to help a patient or a colleague that was also sacrificing for me, that would be one thing. I’m not sacrificing for the administrators running an academic medical center that increasingly resembles for-profit companies like Amazon. 

This is ultimately the most disappointing revelation I’ve seen about the physician-scientist. So much is about money. More and more physician-scientist work is about collaborating with industry to bring in money for a university that only wants you if you’re going to make them money. The old dream of taking my own bench finding and taking it to the clinic to help actual real-life patients is exactly that, a dream. Maybe I was just naive. Maybe I just expected too much. 

On the other side of all those thoughts, my first post-training job is private practice rural family medicine physician. Ultimately I concluded, for myself, that the academic physician-scientist has an opportunity to help real life people but it just wasn’t the most intellectually stimulating work in medicine. I felt that was in rural family medicine. I think the creativity in medicine lies in synthesizing all of the findings from different subspecialties and blending that to help the individual patient in front of you. The demand in rural medicine protects me from the administrators pushing me onto the 30-patients-a-day primary care treadmill so I have time to read the primary literature. I’m also away from the protocols and specialists at a big academic medical center that dictate my clinical decisions so I actually have the freedom to come to my own data-driven conclusions. And finally being in an area surrounded by social determinants of health for miles and miles fixes my desire to be needed and do work that maybe wouldn’t be done without me. I’m still trying to figure out how, or if, research falls into this life. Maybe I’ll get a remote MPH and work on some clinical research or maybe one day I’ll wake up and it’ll be time to look for a teaching job at an academic center. I don’t know. But for today I get to spend an afternoon off thinking and I’m grateful for that.

see you on the other side,

from ken

[tennantrosendahl01]

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[devan-patel]

Devan Patel of Zen Nutrients: A Pharmacist's Journey in Health and Nutrition

Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and nutrition but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Devan Patel, Owner of Zen Nutrients, located in Lutz, LF, USA.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

They say pharmacists are one of the most trusted professionals in the world. Well then, if you take the trust and wisdom of a pharmacist and combine that with the knowledge and expertise of a physician, this equals Zen Nutrients.

At Zen Nutrients, our pharma-grade products are designed to be targeted for specific medical conditions to improve health outcomes, increase compliance and reduce costs. Zen products are formulated with research-backed, premium quality organic and bioavailable ingredients.

We manufacture our supplements in the USA in a state-of-the-art FDA-registered facility following Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP), using non-GMO ingredients. Best of all, we 3rd party tests to ensure top quality and safety.

The category of customers we focus on are neuropathy, wound healing, surgery recovery, scar reduction, plantar fasciitis, rosacea, acne, and skin health. At Zen, we focus on "healing from within."

Tell us about yourself

As a clinical and compounding pharmacist, I have a passion for helping patients get better, especially when traditional prescription medications have not worked well. In many instances, I have found natural medications to have a better upside.

While working in this field, I have created some unique formulations to help many frail patients improve their quality of life and, in many instances, heal faster. So what started as a passion has now become a thriving supplement and nutraceutical company.

What motivates me daily is making an impact on someone's health. I'm not going to make everyone happy, but if I can make a positive difference in my community, it keeps me stoked and energized.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

In 2020 we received the Amazon's Choice Rating for WoundVite®. Amazon recognized us as the best in the category, and now we the #1 Most Comprehensive Surgery, Wound, and Scar reduction support supplement in the United States.

WoundVite® was formulated using pharma-grade and research-backed ingredients. Our results speak for themselves, and we have well over 2,000 positive reviews and more than 100,000 happy customers using WoundVite®.

What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?

While we know Amazon is a wonderful platform to easily purchase products; there are flaws within the review rating system. It has been very challenging to deal with fake negative reviews and comments from competitors.

It's sabotage at your finest level. As an owner, you have to stay focused on keeping your customers happy, delivering quality, and providing true value to them. Naturally, you will build a solid and reputable brand, but it just makes the process harder.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

I'm a strong advocate of learning the job task yourself first, then delegating it to scale up. There are several dishonest companies that may take advantage of you, especially when you don't know how something works.

It's easy to get distracted and frustrated when things don't go as planned. Be laser-focused on your goals, and don't give up.

I have found using Fiverr to be very helpful in finding talented help to build your business.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

Focus on organic marketing growth. It's a better long-term solution to build trust and happiness with your customers. We have over 100 awesome medical blogs on our website to help customers "heal from within."

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://zennutrients.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZenNutrients/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zen_nutrients/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devan-a-patel-39058b170/

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[letmebieber]

6 Perks Of Getting Florida Medical License

In the realm of health care, securing a clinical license is a critical action for medical professionals to perform medication legally and also morally. Each state in the United States possesses its very own licensing criteria, and Fla sticks out as an attractive place for health care specialists for several causes.

6 Perks Of Getting A Florida Clinical License:

Expanding Population as well as Requirement for Medical Care Companies

Fla is known for its own quickly developing population, steered by elements including movement coming from other conditions and a growing old population. With an increasing amount of citizens, there is actually a corresponding growth in requirement for health care services. Physicians along with a FLorida health care license possess access to a huge individual pool, delivering substantial options to build a booming process.

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Florida includes an assorted population, comprising several age, ethnic backgrounds, as well as socioeconomic histories. This variety offers medical professionals along with unique medical challenges as well as options to widen their professional know-how. Coming from city facilities to non-urban communities, healthcare experts with a FL state medical board can easily offer a vast range of clients along with differing healthcare needs.

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Past professional considerations, Florida delivers an eye-catching way of life characterized by warm and comfortable weather, beautiful beaches, and rich leisure tasks. Several medical care professionals are actually pulled to the state's pleasing temperature and outdoor features, boosting their general lifestyle. This aspect can help in physician satisfaction and also health, essentially benefiting person treatment.

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Fla is actually home to prominent clinical establishments, consisting of scholarly health care centers, investigation medical facilities, and specialty medical clinics. Physicians certified in Florida have the option to collaborate along with leading specialists in their fields, gain access to innovative health care innovations, as well as take part in innovative analysis initiatives. This visibility to state-of-the-art healthcare facilities may sustain qualified growth and lift the standard of patient care.

Expert Social Network Opportunities

The healthcare landscape in Fla is dynamic and also compelling, using countless possibilities for professional social network and cooperation. Physicians along with a Florida health care license can engage with coworkers by means of clinical societies, conferences, and carrying on learning events. These interactions facilitate understanding exchange, peer help, as well as prospective job improvement opportunities, enriching the professional expertise.

Cooperation as well as Transportability

Fla keeps cooperation contracts with several various other states, streamlining the process for certified medical doctors to exercise throughout state lines. This reciprocity improves the mobility of a Florida state medical board, permitting doctors higher flexibility in pursuing locum tenens assignments, telemedicine options, or even relocating their method. The capability to practice medication in numerous states expands profession alternatives and increases professional movement.

In verdict, securing a Fla clinical license offers numerous benefits for healthcare specialists finding worthwhile profession opportunities as well as a desirable way of living. Coming from a growing client populace to assorted professional obstacles and also modern medical care facilities, Fla gives an enhancing atmosphere for doctors to thrive. In addition, the condition's focus on qualified social network, mutuality arrangements, and portability more enhances the allure of holding a Florida health care license. Whether plunging into a new career pathway or even seeking to broaden one's practice perspectives, Fla remains a powerful destination for striving and set up medical professionals alike.

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Why Scribes Became Important?

If providers and hospital systems want to remain competitive in the present market, they must keep up with the rapid changes in the medical industry. It is crucial for practices to invest in services that will enable them to focus on some of the largest pain concerns as the industry continues to develop. Charting and office tasks fall under this category. It is crucial for healthcare professionals to make every effort to increase productivity so they can spend more time with patients. Medical scribes can be useful in this situation. Does hiring a medical scribe to sound like a good idea? 

There are a few things to consider.

Examining what medical scribes perform in more detail is crucial because every practice is unique. It is the responsibility of medical scribes, also known as documentation assistants, to record all of the material that is discussed with patients. They will observe the doctor during the appointment, pay attention to what they say, and enter the details in the electronic medical record system. While physicians have always recorded their own notes, the procedure has grown arduous and is now interfering with their capacity to spend time with patients. By entering all the data into the EHR system on their behalf, a medical scribe may relieve them of this burden. 

A scribe is a medical professional who assists a busy doctor or mid-level provider with their primary secretarial and non-clinical duties. Scribes specialize in entering medical information into paper or electronic medical record systems and setting up effective workflow procedures, giving medical providers more time to focus on direct patient care activities like seeing the next patient who is waiting, performing procedures, and interacting with the nursing staff. The need for thorough—and occasionally burdensome—documentation in healthcare has increased, which has made the job of a medical scribe in a clinical or ED environment crucial. In many respects, scribes serve as the provider's eyes and ears, enabling them to give the patient their undivided attention and return to the core of what being a doctor is all about: working directly with their patients rather than the EMR.

How Can Medical Scribes Be Of Use? 

There are several specializations, hence the advantages that medical scribes provide to practices will differ depending on the speciality. Despite this, there are numerous universal advantages, with the following being some of the most notable:By seeing more patients per day and spending less time charting, doctors may increase revenue. A more thorough charting process should result in fewer insurance companies rejecting claims. Scribes can also help staff members as they can spend less time charting and more time assisting in other parts of the practice.

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Medical Scribes Prevent Physician Burnout 

The ability to improve physician satisfaction is another justification for why hiring a medical scribe is worthwhile. To care for patients, medical students attend medical school. They did not enrol in medical school to spend their days in front of a computer. Unfortunately, a lot of medical professionals spend more time in front of a computer than they do with patients. Having a medical scribe enables the doctor to spend as much time as possible with the patient, which may make them happy. This may lower physician burnout rates and prolong the careers of doctors.

Patient Satisfaction Is Increased By Medical Scribes

The ability to increase patient satisfaction is another reason why hiring medical scribes are worthwhile. Doctors may give their undivided attention to the patient when their practices employ medical scribes. The patient won't have to worry about the doctor being distracted by a computer or otherwise absent from the situation. Face-to-face communication is crucial since medicine is a people-based industry. Medical scribes help doctors get to know their patients better, encourage patients to open up more and increase patient satisfaction. Everyone benefits from this more. 

These are only a handful of the main justifications for hiring a medical scribe.

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Study Pharmacy from Top UK Universities!

For overseas students interested in chemistry and the role of medicine in helping patients with their ailments, studying pharmacy in the UK would be a great option. A career in pharmacy would be a perfect fit for those who are passionate about health, disease, and science, whether it be dispensing medication at a neighborhood drugstore based on a general practitioner's prescription or working in a large, complex hospital setting to ensure doctors, nurses, and patients receive the appropriate guidance and support.

Four years are usually required to study pharmacy. During that time, students will study pharmacology, biology, physiology, pharmaceutics, chemistry, ethics, and economics. Student work internships in the industry will impart knowledge and provide practical experience. With technology that mimics real-world pharmacy environments, including computer networks, consultation areas, and pharmaceutical dispensing stations, modern laboratories can help you refine your skills.

Jobs in Pharmacy

Because they make sure patients receive the appropriate medication and dosage for their ailments, pharmacists play a crucial role in the health care system. In addition, they assist patients in managing any adverse effects and provide advice on how to take medications safely.

Community pharmacy: This is one of the most well-liked pharmacy career pathways. Pharmacists in this position deliver prescription drugs written by physicians or other medical experts at neighborhood pharmacies.

In addition, they respond to inquiries, counsel patients on safe prescription administration, and provide direction on over-the-counter drugs.

Hospital pharmacy is yet another well-liked professional choice. In order to guarantee that patients receive the right prescription and dosage, pharmacists in hospitals and other healthcare facilities perform this function. Additionally, they collaborate closely with physicians and other medical specialists to create treatment programs and handle any negative consequences.

Teaching: Graduates in pharmacy can also find employment at colleges and other educational establishments, where they can conduct research and impart knowledge. For those looking to advance the pharmacy industry and instruct the upcoming generation of pharmacists, this is an excellent option.

Pharmacy assistants: When needed, assistants help technicians with a range of responsibilities. It is necessary to collect and dispense prescriptions, order supplies to meet departmental needs, and respond to consumer inquiries. Facilities that provide healthcare have the greatest need for assistance.

Pharmacy Technician: Pharmacy technicians serve a critical role in ensuring that patients receive the proper amount and supply of medication. They primarily operate in two basic settings, hospitals and community pharmacies. Technicians in pharmacy can specialize in a number of areas, such as clinical trials, production, and quality control.

A career in pharmacy can be stimulating and fulfilling, regardless of your preferred setting—a hospital, academic institution, pharmaceutical company, or neighborhood drugstore. With the appropriate training and credentials, you can improve patient outcomes and support the healthcare system.

Pay Range

Starting a career with an average pay of £18,500 The average beginning income for non-professionals is £16,800. The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 are the sources.

Prerequisites for entering the UK to pursue a pharmacy degree

For students in the UK who have a strong interest in science and medicine, pharmacy school is a popular choice. The UK has strict requirements for applicants to its pharmacy programs. Standard prerequisites for an International Baccalaureate are 34 points. Standard prerequisites for A-levels: AAB. The usual IELTS score is 6.5 overall, with no single component falling below 6.0.

Employment History

Certain universities mandate that applicants possess appropriate job experience in the healthcare sector, such as experience working in a hospital or pharmacy. Students who want to gain an understanding of the industry and the abilities needed to work in it must have work experience.

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For their pharmacy programs, some colleges require applicants to appear for an interview before they can be admitted. In conclusion, students who wish to pursue a pharmacy program in the UK must fulfill certain academic prerequisites, demonstrate proficiency in the English language, possess relevant job experience, and may also need to attend an interview. Reaching the prerequisites is the first step towards starting a fulfilling and stimulating career in pharmacy.

In the UK, pursue an M.Pharm.

With the four-year integrated Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program, students can start their studies at the bachelor's level, complete their B.Pharm degree, and then finish their M.Pharm degree in just two years. Although UCAS lists the program as an undergraduate degree, students who successfully complete it are awarded a master's degree. A five-year MPharm degree with two 6-month blocks of practical training is available from some UK universities. The universities that provide this kind of curriculum are the only ones that prospective students interested in studying pharmacy in the UK should consider (PEBC).

Top-ranked colleges for pharmacy education

top UK institutions for pharmacy and pharmacy programs are listed below, according to the Guardian University Guide 2024.

College of Strathclyde

The pharmacy degree programs offered by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, are highly regarded both domestically and abroad. Third in the UK for pharmacy programs, the University

of Strathclyde's curriculum gives students a strong foundation in theory and practise.

Nottingham University

On the southwest edge of the city sits the University of Nottingham, one of the best in the Midlands. The pharmacy programs offered by the university are consistently among its most sought-after academic offerings. As a result, their university is regularly listed in the most reputable university rankings, including the one that was just cited.

London's University College (UCL)

University College London is a good place to start for those considering pharmacy school in London. Its outstanding academic programs, including pharmacy, have brought it great recognition both domestically and internationally.

University of Cardiff

Most people agree that Cardiff University is the best university in Wales and the best pharmacy school in the United Kingdom. Thanks to the school's state-of-the-art facilities, student-centered curriculum, and, most importantly, its esteemed professors, you can be confident that your child will receive an excellent education here.

Manchester University

The esteemed Faculty of Biology, Health, and Medicine at the University of Manchester offers some of the best pharmacy programs in the United Kingdom. You have a lot of options in this regard thanks to a wide range of courses and degree programs. This pharmacy school is the best option if you want to earn your pharmaceutical degree and enhance your CV by demonstrating your suitability for a position as a pharmacist.

Bath University

The Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at the University of Bath offers some of the most outstanding pharmacy programs in the country. The goal of pursuing this subject of study at this university is to get ready for a career in chemistry.

Belfast's Queen's University

Queen's University Belfast is considered as one of the top in the United Kingdom and offers highly acclaimed pharmacy education. The university draws highly qualified students from all around the world to enroll because of its stellar reputation and excellence.

Ulster University

Another respectable university is located in Northern Ireland. In recent years, the University of Ulster's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been routinely ranked as one of the best pharmacy schools in the UK.

Birmingham University

At the University of Birmingham's School of Pharmacy, you can pursue a career as a cutting-edge chemist or pharmaceutical researcher upon fulfilling the necessary coursework requirements. This is demonstrated by their well-defined study plan, which masterfully addresses the most current developments in this field of study.

University of Robert Gordon

Experts in the field teach pharmacy students at Robert Gordon University's School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences about pharmaceutical science and practice. After completing pharmacy school, you will possess the knowledge necessary to support and enhance the health care systems in our society.

Last Remarks

In conclusion, those who wish to work in the healthcare industry might consider studying pharmacy in the UK. at the UK, pharmacy students have access to a wide range of opportunities, including research projects, internships, and placements at community pharmacies and hospitals. Additionally, in order to broaden their networks and remain current with industry developments, they might join pharmacy organizations, take part in professional development programs, and go to conferences and seminars.

In the UK, pharmacy students have access to a variety of opportunities, including research projects, internships, and clinical and community pharmacy rotations. To widen their networks and remain current with market trends, they can also take part in professional development programs, go to conferences and seminars, and join pharmacy organizations. As the population ages and more individuals seek healthcare services, there will be a growing demand for qualified pharmacists in the years to come.

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The Scope Of Best Paramedical Courses In India

Ever wonder who keeps an eye on things behind the scenes at a clinic or hospital to ensure everything goes as planned? These paramedical personnel are the unsung heroes of the medical field. This blog article will discuss the Best Paramedical Courses, their place in the healthcare sector, and the reasons India should take them into consideration.

Why Should You Consider A Career In Paramedicine?

Are you trying to find a profession that will truly change people's lives and be both difficult and satisfying? You could be a great fit for paramedicine if that's the case! Serving patients in need of critical assistance and treatment, paramedics are at the forefront of emergency medical care. Gaining the information and abilities necessary to excel as a professional and have a good influence on your community may be accomplished with a paramedical education. Imagine arriving at the site of an accident as the first person to help someone who is in need of medical attention. or helping to save lives and console patients and their families while working at a hospital with physicians and nurses. 

You will have the chance to positively impact people's lives on a daily basis as a paramedic.

Not only that, but a paramedical vocation offers a wide variety of employment options, both domestically and abroad. You can hone your abilities and expand your knowledge by specialising in a certain field, such as critical care, trauma, or paediatric care. You can also begin working and changing lives sooner because the training required is less than that of a doctor or nurse.

Therefore, why not think about enrolling in a paramedical school if you have a strong desire to serve others and a keen interest in medicine? You may become an unsung hero in the healthcare sector and truly impact people's lives if you have the necessary training and commitment. Don't hesitate; start your journey to a rewarding and thrilling paramedical profession right now!

The Exciting Job Opportunities In Paramedicine

A job as a paramedic might be ideal for you if you have a strong desire to serve others and are interested in the medical industry. You may acquire the information and abilities required to pursue a wide range of fascinating career choices and truly improve people's lives by enrolling in a paramedical degree. Following the completion of the best paramedical course, you can pursue the following fascinating career opportunities:

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs): EMTs are the first to respond to crises, giving patients emergency medical attention and transportation. This position necessitates fast thinking, composure under duress, and teamwork skills.

Paramedic: In both emergency and non-emergency scenarios, paramedics serve people in need of cutting-edge medical assistance. High levels of expertise and proficiency are necessary for this position, in addition to the capacity for autonomous work.

Flight Paramedic: Flight paramedics provide emergency medical treatment to patients in distant or challenging-to-reach regions while working aboard medical helicopters and aeroplanes. Excellent critical thinking abilities and the capacity to function efficiently under pressure are prerequisites for this position.

Critical Care Paramedic: In both emergency and hospital settings, critical care paramedics administer cutting-edge medical treatment to patients who are seriously ill or injured. High levels of expertise and proficiency are necessary for this position, in addition to the capacity for collaborative work.

Paediatric paramedics: These professionals focus on giving newborns, kids, and teenagers medical attention. High levels of knowledge and expertise are necessary for this position, in addition to the capacity to collaborate effectively with families and kids.

Evidently, a profession in paramedicine has an array of employment prospects, everyone presenting distinct obstacles and benefits. There's paramedical employment for you whether your interests lie in working in emergency circumstances, offering sophisticated medical treatment, or specialising in a certain field of best paramedical courses.

The Lucrative Salary Expectations in Paramedicine

You may be confident that working in paramedicine can lead to a satisfying and lucrative career. The following list of expected salaries for a range of paramedical positions:

As an emergency medical technician (EMT), you can expect to make between INR 2,50,000 and INR 3,50,000 per year on average in India. EMTs may make up to INR 6,00,000 per year with experience and additional training.

Paramedic: The annual compensation range for paramedics in India is between INR 4,00,000 to INR 6,00,000. Paramedics may make up to INR 10,000,000.000 a year with further training and experience.

Flight Paramedic: In India, the typical annual compensation for a flight paramedic is from INR 6,00,000 to INR 10,00,000. Flight paramedics may make up to INR 20,00,000 a year with experience and further training.

INR 8,00,000 to INR 12,00,000 is the typical annual compensation for a critical care paramedic in India. A critical care paramedic's annual salary might reach INR 20,00,000 with experience and additional training.

Approximately INR 6,00,000 to INR 8,00,000 is the typical annual compensation for the paediatric best paramedical courses in India. A paediatric paramedic's annual salary might reach INR 15,00,000 with experience and additional training.

As one observe, there are chances for professional growth and promotion as well as cash compensation in a paramedical job in India. You may embark on a demanding and rewarding professional path that provides financial and personal advantages by enrolling in a paramedical degree at Smart Academy and acquiring the required information and abilities.

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