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Our message this week is to simply let you know how grateful every employee of PRMS is for your long-time support of our business. We hope each of you have a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday. ...

Right after Labor Day each year, “meeting season” starts. From early September through mid-November, it seems every psychiatric organization holds a meeting; our goal is to attend as many of them as possible. In the past nine weeks, PRMS staff attended more than 50 meetings throughout the country.  These included APA district branch meetings, US Psychiatric Congress, Northern C ...

We compiled three documents related to child and adolescent psychiatry to distribute to our customers at the AACAP meeting in San Francisco: (1) a resource list of articles and websites on Youth Violence and Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior; (2) a list of the top 50 professional liability points for child and adolescent psychiatrists, and (3) a collection of our own risk managem ...

People are attracted to medicine as a career for myriad reasons, but for most, a key motivator is a desire to help alleviate the suffering of others. At a time when the great suffering of the residents of northeast corridor is evident to all, many doctors are thinking about how they can help. Alas, the legal strictures of modern life force us to advise doctors to control the in ...

Every physician knows the three steps of experiential education: first you watch over someone’s shoulder, then you get to try it yourself, and finally you demonstrate mastery by teaching the next group of neophytes. This could well be the earliest form of education, since at its most basic, it doesn’t require anything to be written down nor does it even require the teacher and ...

Although CPT coding for insurance billing purposes is outside the scope of risk management services provided under PRMS’ professional liability insurance policy, we do know that it’s a hot topic for psychiatry right now. If you’re not aware of the upcoming changes, you need to find out about them before January 1, 2013. PRMS staff have attended more than two dozen psychiatry me ...

For over 20 years, NAMI has deemed a week in October as Mental Illness Awareness Week. This year, it began October 7 and ends this weekend. I feel somewhat foolish highlighting this to the specialists who are at the forefront of dealing with the mentally ill and their families. Still, I would urge psychiatrists to check out NAMI’s website for some ideas about making sure that n ...

A guest post by Melanie Smith, Senior Vice President, Client Relations It doesn’t take much. Maybe a quick note or a cheerful card. A colorful drawing by a child. A care package. No. Not much at all to reach out to our troops and to send a message of support their way. For almost a decade, PRMS has actively supported our troops serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This volunte ...

We invite you to join us October 22, 2012 in San Francisco, CA for our upcoming risk management seminar on Current Liability Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Opportunities to Minimize Risk. ...

The title of this blog post is not one long typographical error. The first two are easy, but if the last two have you puzzled, consider attending the webinar we’re offering on September 28. For a hint of what the webinar will cover, please check out my colleague Dave Cash’s very brief video. Psychiatrists need to understand the increasing importance of REMS (no, it’s not just “ ...