by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 5, 2016 | Physician Leadership
One more flight and I am home after a long couple days of meetings and traveling. I was looking forward to getting back to Austin in a little more than two hours. I was even upgraded to first class, so I was especially happy as we boarded the plane. I sat down and...
by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Health Care Cost– the silent, dangerous blood pressure equivalent of the Industry I remember the one of the first things we were taught in psychiatry was the adage: “The patient will not change until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of changing”....
by Steve Berkowitz | Nov 23, 2016 | Physician Leadership
From a calling to a job… and maybe back to a calling Have we come full circle? I have written in the past about how the practice of medicine in my lifetime has gone from a calling to a profession to a job. When I was a medical student, most of us felt that becoming a...
by Steve Berkowitz | Nov 14, 2016 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
The following blog is a continuation of my previous blog, now with reflection of last Tuesday’s election: America got a wake-up call a couple weeks ago. Health care premiums for 2017 will rise an average of 25%, with people in some states having to pay rate...
by Steve Berkowitz | Nov 2, 2016 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
It’s about much more than Obamacare… Studies show that the average premium increase across the country is in the range 25%, with some receiving increases of over 50%. Present health care costs are very difficult for the Americans to handle. The...
