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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > January, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 1

So You Want to Make More Money?

See what top-earning leaders have to say about scaling the surgical pay scale.

Daniel Cook, Managing Editor

Donna Ferguson, RN, MBA, pounced when the administrator at her former center up and left. "I pitched in and started managing the place," says the spunky go-getter. By the time the physician-owners began interviewing potential replacements, the leading candidate had already firmly established herself as the best person for the job. Today Ms. Ferguson makes more than $150,000 as the director of outpatient surgery and the GI lab at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, Calif. Would she be pulling in six figures if she hadn't cannonballed into the deep end of the management pool way back when? Not likely.

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