Owners must stay vigilant about protecting their practice from embezzlement and have a good policy in place to detect, deter and prevent it, according to one presenter.
“We need to create good financial controls and monitor them closely,” Ravi Goel, MD, said at Real World Ophthalmology.
In his book Through My Eyes, Charles Kelman, MD, devoted a chapter to embezzlement. When he was doing his initial studies on phacoemulsification and experimenting with the technique on lost eyes with no light perception, he was the victim of embezzlement. He fired the (Read more...)