CAP is offering an attractive incentive, for physicians and staff alike, when your practice implements this package of three Risk Management and Patient Safety tools.

Though wrong-sided surgeries have been exhaustively addressed through institutionalized precautions, they still happen. In one case, a surgeon’s stated trust in the patient apparently set in motion an ill-fated course.

Modern Aesthetics® spoke with Catherine Miller, RN, JD, a Senior Risk Management & Patient Safety Specialist for the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) in Los Angeles, about physician burnout, why we are seeing more of it today, and importantly what doctors can do to avoid or reverse it.

Just like physicians working with historical and established medical care, all telehealth, video, m-health, and e-health physicians or caregivers must uphold the same standard for safeguarding all of the records on patients’ care and on conversations securely and confidentially.

The terms “capacity” and “competence” are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences.