Book Review: The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners
Author: Marshall O. Zaslove, MD Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Learning – 307 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a very useful book for time-challenged physicians by Dr. Marshall O. Zaslove, who has conducted over 500 seminars on personal and professional productivity for major medical organizations. Among those are American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the International College of Surgeons and Kaiser Permanente. The purpose of this book is to help doctors become more productive streamlining, modernization and improvement in efficiency. Part of that process means getting organized on a professional as well as a personal level, since each affects the other closely. It contains some 140 practical ways to reduce hassles, pressures, risks, urgencies and worries. The productivity techniques laid out in this book to help doctors save time on non-essential chores and enable them to focus on the essential tasks of their practice were compiled by the author from doctors through many means. Among them are: emails, interviews, letters, phone calls and questionnaires. Insight and detailed understanding of the problems doctors face on a day-to-day basis was gained from discussions in Dr. Zaslove’s seminars on physician productivity. The author also spoke to medical technicians, nurses, office managers, operating room personnel, pharmacists, physician assistants and others in the medical field. Learning never stops, as has been said, and much can be learned by doctors...
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