What every physician needs to know about disability insurance.

What every pediatrician should know about liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease.  Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of pediatric LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplant surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT whi...

Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants.

Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and consumption of awarded and rejected DI applicants, before and after the disability onset and the allowance ...

Anatomy of a malpractice claim: what every health care professional needs to know.

Portrait of a leader in immunotherapeutics

It's the question that every grade school kid has to answer at some point or another--"What do you want to be when you grow up?" My mom still has the second grade paper on which I first wrote down that I wanted to be a "physician scientist." I'm quite certain that I probably didn't know exactly what a physician scientist was at the time. I certainly didn't know any physician scientists personal...

How to read an explanation of benefits.

A n explanation of benefits (EOB) describes how you got paid. Almost all physicians in training and many physicians in practice do not understand, or ever review, their EOBs. In private practice, that is a mistake. When you have someone else, such as your billing person, reviewing the EOBs, but not you, they often create what I have heard called a Porsche drawer, meaning that if you go by their...