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Practical writing on clinical communication.

Guides

Getting clinical communication right.

Practical writing on after-hours coverage, on-call scheduling and secure messaging — for the people who actually have to make it work.

Answering service or secure messaging?

Most practices are sold one or the other. What each actually does, the seam between them where after-hours calls go wrong, and four questions that tell you which you need.

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After-hours calls in a pediatric practice

The caller is a parent, not the patient. Why an incomplete message costs more in pediatrics, what happens when the on-call roster moves, and the questions worth asking any vendor.

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Routing after-hours calls to the on-call physician

A stale copy of your schedule, senders guessing who is covering, no escalation when nobody answers. The five failures, and the questions that expose them in a sales call.

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On-call scheduling for independent practices

The rota is usually somebody’s second job. What makes one fair, the coverage patterns most software cannot express, and why publishing a schedule is not the same as routing on it.

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Stroke case study: activating a team in under a minute

How a stroke team cut activation time using one alert instead of a phone tree — the case behind MatchMD’s code-team coordination.

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