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Celebrating National Doctors’ Day 2022

March 30, 2022

Randal Dabbs, MD, Co-Founder, President, Practice Development Whether you “accidentally” chose to be a physician, or you feel you were chosen by a higher power, you were given a gift to be an angel to every person who comes to you for medical care. Whatever road led you to this point, we are thankful...

Recognizing your commitment on National Doctors’ Day

March 30, 2021

This Doctors’ Day — as we pass the one-year mark since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — the importance of your work is clear to the world. Thank you for your dedication to finding innovative solutions, especially while facing intense uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic. As patients’ needs grew throughout the...

TeamHealth Celebrates Doctors’ Day 2020!

March 30, 2020

In celebration of Doctors’ Day, TeamHealth wants to let you know how much we appreciate your commitment to providing quality care to your patients every day. National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on March 30 in the United States. It’s a holiday that honors physicians for the work they do for their patients, the communities they...

Submit Your Story for Doctors’ Day 2020

March 17, 2020

“From a young age, I always knew that in some way, shape or form I wanted to help other people. I was really attracted to the closeness that comes from being a physician,” said Michael Corvini, MD, President, TeamHealth Southeast Group, as he tells us about why he became a physician. “For me, the opportunity...

Disaster Preparedness: Strategies for Managing the Unexpected

September 5, 2019

Hospitals must always be prepared to respond at a moment’s notice to powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass casualty events and other potential disasters. If a disaster is preceded with sufficient warning such as weather reports, hospitals typically activate an incident command center that manages resources and response activities before, during and after the event. Similarly, some clinical outsourcing partners...

Amidst the Opioid-Epidemic Storm: Reflections of a Non-Opioid Anesthesiologist

August 29, 2019

By David J Samuels, MD, Facility Medical Director TeamHealth Anesthesiology, Select Physicians Surgery Center, Tampa, Florida. In 2016, Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, sent a letter to every physician in the United States enlisting our commitment to helping end the opioid epidemic. He stated that the crisis was born from a “path of good intentions.”...

Recognizing National Stress Awareness Month at TeamHealth

April 18, 2019

By Dr. Richard Juman, PsyD, TeamHealth National Director of Psychological Services Your palms are sweaty and you can feel your pulse pounding in your veins. Is it stress? You’re trying to focus on the all-important task at hand, but at the same time your mind is sending competing thoughts your way, and you curse yourself...

Happy Doctors’ Day 2019! Where Did Doctors’ Day Come From?

March 28, 2019

National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on March 30 in the United States. It’s a holiday that honors physicians for the work they do for their patients, the communities they work in and for society as a whole. It is their hard work and devotion that keeps all of us healthy – and we use this...

TeamHealth Kicks Off Doctors’ Day 2019 With Share Your Story Contest

March 19, 2019

In celebration of National Doctors’ Day 2019, we want to let you know how much we appreciate your commitment to providing quality care to your patients every day. TeamHealth wants to celebrate by hearing your personal story of why you became a physician! Visit our National Doctors’ Day submission site to share your story today!...

And the 2018 Share Happiness Winners Are…

November 6, 2018

TeamHealth just wrapped up our Share Happiness contest and want to thank all the physicians and advanced practice clinicians who shared their stories of what brings them joy! All physicians and APCs were eligible to participate by sharing a picture and story of how they like to share happiness. From hiking your favorite trails, to...

The Surgical Solution Shop

November 1, 2018

By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology Our primary role as physicians and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) is to take great care of patients. In a healthcare environment so focused on costs as we shift to value-based care where reimbursement is tied to the quality and efficiency of the care delivered, it’s easy to...

Telemedicine: No Longer Just for The Jetsons

October 16, 2018

by Joseph Chow, MD, President, Ambulatory Care For those who remember The Jetsons, talking to another person via a computer screen seemed so out of reach and farfetched. (For those who don’t, you can Google it). Now, I FaceTime my kids whenever I’m out of town and it’s the norm. Last month, I had the...

TeamHealth Kicks Off 2018 Share Happiness Contest

October 1, 2018

How do you Share Happiness? From hiking your favorite trails to cooking your favorite meals or spending quality time with loved ones – we want to know what brings you happiness and makes you smile. We’re kicking off our Share Happiness contest for physicians and advanced practice clinicians and we want to know what makes...

Just One Shift

September 6, 2018

By Joseph Chow, MD, President, Ambulatory Care Because TeamHealth clinicians are seeing patients, we all have a vested interest in making TeamHealth as reputable and healthy as possible. Consider some navigational math: if you veer by only one degree in a flight plan across the world, you will wind up more than 500 miles off...

A Physician’s Perspective: Work and Life in Rhode Island

August 23, 2018

We recently spoke with Dr. Daren Girard, TeamHealth emergency medicine facility medical director, about his partner facilities and the community he serves in Rhode Island. TeamHealth: Tell us about the facilities you currently oversee. Dr. Girard: CharterCARE Health Partners manages two hospitals in Rhode Island. Our Lady of Fatima Hospital is a full-service community hospital...