Author: Joshua M. Abzug, MD

Clinical

Do Your Part to be Lean and Green

It is well known that there is a substantial effort to reduce healthcare costs.  These reductions can occur by decreasing reimbursements to both the healthcare facility and directly to the physician. As many physicians receive direct benefit from the healthcare facility in the form of profit-sharing, salary, payment for call, etc., it is in our best interests, as physicians, to…
Work/Life Balance

There goes a firetruck…

A hobby is defined on Google, since we are in the electronic era, as “an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure.”  As part of my residency, fellowship and the beginning of my academic career, I would see instructional course lectures (ICLs) and other lectureships related to the work-life balance.  Visiting professors would even often incorporate topics like…