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NEW ORLEANS -- Dr. Edward Zurad has developed a new skill in his office-based practice: "firing" patients.
Although it's not something he does frequently, Dr. Zurad, a family physician in Tunkhannock, Penn., said he has "gotten really good at firing patients in the last 2 years."
Firing patients who won't follow your advice is one way to avoid a potentially risky situation in terms of medical liability, he said. Another way is to document carefully any situation in which patients are noncompliant.
"It's unbelievably important to document noncompliance," Dr. Zurad said at the...
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