Toward Sensitive Treatment of Obese Patients

Syed M. Ahmed, Jeanne Parr Lemkau, Sandra Lee Birt

Compassionate care will help them even if they never lose a pound.

“You Should See My Doctor”: Cost-Effective Marketing Ideas for Your Practice

James M. Giovino

Marketing doesn’t have to be expensive, complicated or unethical. To begin, simply treat your current patients right.

Tuning Up Your Patient Schedule

M. Kyu Chung

These scheduling tips can help you smooth out the peaks and valleys in your patient flow and increase your bottom line.

Building a New Health Care System

Robert L. Edsall

When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,1 the horrifying estimates of morbidity and mortality caused by medical errors made headlines for months. When the follow-up report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System...

Coding & documentation: No harder than biochemistry

Herb Weinman

Dictation during patient visit: Tried it, liked it

Douglas R. Morrissey

Focused residency training key to future of specialty

Isaac Kim

Corrections

CPT: What’s New in 2002?

Kent J. Moore

You should be aware of changes in E/M, integumentary, musculoskeletal and lab codes.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Preventive care & the E/M guidelines | Review of blood-gas analysis | Draining a hematoma

MONITOR

Medicare physician payments face significant cuts | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Studies document impact of direct-to-consumer ads, rising drug spending | PHYSICIANS AND COMPUTERS | No impact from gatekeeping | The costs of doing...

Race and Preventive Services Delivery

Robin S. Gotler, Robert L. Williams, Susan A. Flocke, George E. Kikano, Kurt C. Stange

The way to eliminate disparities may be to improve access to family physicians.

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Locum tenens | Job security | The oracle

Looking for a Good Electronic Medical Records System?

Jennifer Bush

This list of criteria for evaluating EMR systems has been developed for family physicians by family physicians.

ASK FPM

Barbara Pross, James Bare, Kent J. Moore

Transcription in the hospital | Free or discounted medications | Reimbursement for frequent home visits

The Forgotten Art of Setting Goals

Pamela J. Vaccaro

If your goals have never moved you to action, the problem may be your goals, not you.