Tag Archive for: Patient Relationships

Proust Questionnaire: Suzanne Berman MD, FAAP
To help share your stories and personalities, The Independent Pediatrician created our own version of the Proust Questionnaire. We hope you enjoy this small window into one another's personal and professional challenges and aspirations.

On Her Own Terms: How Going Solo Was the Best Decision for Dr. Warner
Nine years after opening her own practice, Dr. Warner knows going solo was the right choice for her practice.

The Continued Evolution of Pediatrics
Chip Hart introduces the new Independent Pediatrician online and explores why pediatricians across the country are renovating their offices and their businesses as payment models and measures of clinical success shift.

Absent Adolescents: Solving the Problem of Continuity of Care Through the Teenage Years
Annual well visits with a trusted pediatrician are the best forum to address the physical, social, and emotional changes adolescents face today.

Treating Patients With a ‘Community-Side Manner’
With a passion for health policy, Dr. Penn looks to understand her patient population at the community level in order to better serve them.

Out of the Exam Room and Into the Community for Nash Pediatrics
Dr. Alison Nash continues a family tradition/calling as successor
to the pediatric practice her father, Dr. Homer Nash, opened six
decades ago in north St. Louis.

Aging Out of Pediatric Care is All Relative at Pediatric Wellness Group
Northern California pediatricians Drs. Niki Saxena and Eileen Chan discuss the rewards and challenges of expanding their pediatric practice to include services for adolescents and young adults.

Treating Adolescents Using Compassion, Curiosity & Clinical Care
Oklahoma pediatrician Dr. James Hendricks explains how his participation in clinical research projects gave him a leg up on conducting the anticipatory guidance that is so critical to ensuring the physical, emotional and mental well-being of adolescents.

Proust Questionnaire: Christoph Diasio, MD, FAAP
The Independent Pediatrician borrows on a personality test resurrected from the Victorian era to find out what makes North Carolina pediatrician Dr. Christoph Diasio tick.

The Death of Independent Pediatric Practices is Greatly Exaggerated
The evidence that physicians can be as successful at business as they are at care-giving continues to mount, suggests Pediatric Practice Consultant Chip Hart, who cites independent pediatricians who have capitalized on business acumen and an inner drive to thrive financially.