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FEBRUARY 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

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Getting the Most From Your Phone System

Brian Torrey

Looking at your system through the eyes of a patient will help you understand what you need.

    14 Alternative Practice Styles

    James M. Giovino

    Perhaps the road less traveled is the right career path for you. Here are more than a dozen ideas to get you started.

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    The Family Practice Management Practice Self-Test

    Robert L. Edsall, Leigh Ann Backer, Jennifer Bush, Brandi White, Olivia Maresh, Kel Anne Hocker, Marc L. Rivo

    Here’s an easy way to gauge how well your practice is doing in everything from quality of care to quality of claims.

    EDITOR’S PAGE

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    A New Shipment of Tools

    Robert L. Edsall

    As I said in a recent Editor’s Page, we really do live by the motto on the cover when we plan an issue of Family Practice Management: “Tools for Today’s Family Physician.” An article may be something you read and think about, but a tool is something you adopt and use. Many of...

    EDITORIAL

      Improving Your Practice Through the FPM Self-Test

      Marc L. Rivo

      As family physicians, we all share certain characteristics, such as a predisposition to focus on the whole person and an ability to handle the vast majority of our patients’ health needs and to help coordinate their care. Beyond those generalities, though, our practices may...

      LETTERS

        Kindness pays

        Robert D. Gillette

          Corrections

          GETTING PAID

          CODING & DOCUMENTATION

            CODING & DOCUMENTATION

            Kent J. Moore

            Pneumococcal vaccinations and flu shots | Radiology consults | Day two of a three-day observation stay | Prolonged services or critical care maximums | “Significant, separately identifiable” E/M service

            IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

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            Implementing Preventive Care Flow Sheets

            Scott E. Moser, Tana L. Goering

            Even the best preventive medicine tools won’t work until physicians are convinced they’re worth using.

            PRACTICE DIARY

              PRACTICE DIARY

              Sanford J. Brown

              Getting squeezed | Teresa, FNP | Risk managers

              ASK FPM

                ASK FPM

                Gail Levy, Charles O’Dell, Barry A. Gold

                Setting up a practice | Closing time | Physician departure letter

                BALANCING ACT

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                Living on Borrowed Time

                Peter S. Moskowitz

                This quick time-management exercise will show you exactly where you’re spending the 168 hours of your week.



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                All editors and editorial advisory board members in a position to control content for this activity, FPM journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.



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