Office managers' forum.
This article is a summary of the key elements presented during the conference held as part of the Practice Management and Development course sponsored by the Multi-Specialty Foundation in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2009. This article represents an amalgam of perspectives from practices across the United States. The Office Managers' Forum brought together the office managers and surgeons from practices across the United States as panelists. The panelists answered a multitude of practice management questions that included wide-ranging topics such as accounting and financing, staff well being, working with a spouse, hiring and firing, staff meetings, accreditation, motivation, and problems and perks specifically associated with a facial plastic surgery practice.
Lam
Samuel M
SM
Lam Facial Plastic Surgery Center, 6101 Chapel Hill Boulevard, Suite 101, Plano, TX 75093, USA. drlam@lamfacialplastics.com
Hankins
Launa
L
Dieter
Andrea
A
Garcia
Sandie
S
Hepp
Delphine
D
Jordan
Janet L
JL
Silver
William E
WE
Shorr
Jay Alan
JA
Sullivan
Susan E
SE
Whatcott
Pam
P
Williams
Edwin F
EF
Waldman
S Randolph
SR
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