Anthony Amoroso MD

 Interestingly, physician career satisfaction closely correlates with patient satisfaction within a geographic area. As healthcare executives and organizations rank patient experience as a top priority, quality and safety are essential issues.   Given the importance of physician satisfaction (and a dose of human compassion) to the patient experience, it is troublesome that dissatisfaction and burnout are on the rise. Several factors on the healthcare horizon that likely will exacerbate the trend towards physician dissatisfaction include demand by an aging population for more services, decreased autonomy for physicians due to changing healthcare systems, and reduced compensation because of healthcare reform.  Steps to Improving Physician Wellbeing   Whether you are a physician, healthcare administrator, or involved community member, improving satisfaction and wellbeing should be your goal. Based on experience at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, take the followi...

 Accurate documentation of medical records is a cumbersome process, at the same time it is one of the most important jobs as far as a physician is concerned. Medical transcription services for physicians have come as a great boon mainly in that these considerably lighten their administrative work. The time gained can be used for constructive purposes such as devoting more time to patient care and other core activities. Individual physicians can now avail of quality medical transcription at affordable charges. Reliable and Cost-effective Transcription Services   Physicians can now entrust MT companies to transcribe physical reports and history, ER reports, clinic notes, follow up notes, consultation reports and health reports. Medical transcriptionists convert the files dictated by physicians into written documents. According to the needs of the clients, MT companies offer web-based digital recording and toll free dictation services. With the help of competent transcriptionists...