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Supercharging Your Web Experience

David C. Kibbe

Learning how to use your Web browser can increase your efficiency and improve your Internet skills.

Is It Time to Re-examine Family Practice?

Jennifer Bush

Stressed from within and without, family practice could flourish or fade in the coming years.

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Family Practice Between the Waves

Robert L. Edsall

Over the past few years, managed care and the integration frenzy have swept over family practice like a mast-high wave. Now, poorly managed integrated systems are coming apart, managed care is subsiding, and the specialty is sliding down the back of the wave, trailing a...

LETTERS GETTING PAID CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Coding Pap smears | 99211 for strep screens | Laser setup | When a hospitalized patient dies | Medical nutrition therapy

MONITOR

MONITOR

Final patients’ rights bill depends on House-Senate compromise | Coding errors common, due to complex guidelines, says study | Health care utilization constant over 40 years, still concentrated in primary care | E/M guidelines on hold | 00:00:12 | No free lunch | Breaking up...

INFORMATION FROM YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR IMPROVING PATIENT CARE PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

The clavicle: part III | Herbal medicine

COMPUTERS

A Primer on E-mail Discussion Lists

Matt Lewis

It’s easier than ever to share ideas with your colleagues. Best of all, you can do it on your own time from the comfort of your home or office.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Joseph Sacco, David B. Hill, Alice G. Gosfield

Translator requirements | Using electronic signatures | Notice of fees for delinquent accounts

BALANCING ACT

Sharing Lives and Life’s Work

Elaine Brautigam

This group practice found more fulfillment in their work by purposely blurring the line between their personal and professional lives.



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