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Family Medicine Takes Center Stage

Jennifer Bush

As part of the Future of Family Medicine project, the specialty put itself under a glaring spotlight to see where it currently stands.

EDITOR’S PAGE

The First Step Toward the Future of Family Medicine

Robert L. Edsall

Too much bad stuff is happening in health care and to the health care system today to give optimists an easy time. The skyrocketing cost of care is bad enough, but it’s a minor, secondary problem compared with our society’s endless, rapacious appetite for more and fancier...

LETTERS FEATURE

Correction

The sample performance record in “Tracking Performance” [Ask FPM, September 2003, page 73] should have included a space for the employee’s initials rather than the employer’s. When employees initial the record, they acknowledge they have seen and understood their employers’...

GETTING PAID

How to Opt Out of Medicare

Kent J. Moore

Leaving Medicare behind may be tempting, but make sure to look before you leap.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Modifiers -51 & -59 | Hospital consultation codes | Anaphylactic shock | Clarification

MONITOR

MONITOR

HIPAA: Time is on your side | Delegates vote for a name change | How many colonoscopies does it take to get privileges? | Waiving the right to sue | Unsatisfactory report card | Physician recruitment

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

When Your Patients Are in Mourning

Jennifer Kreger

This patient handout will help prevent health crises in mourning patients and demonstrate that you care.

INFORMATION FROM YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

It’s said that doctors’ children never have easy-to-diagnose diseases, and now I know why. Over a year ago, my teenage daughter, Margot, first complained of mild discomfort in her right ankle. She had had assorted sports injuries throughout middle school and high school, but...

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Roger Shenkel, Alice G. Gosfield, Todd A. Rodriguez, Alice G. Gosfield, Donald A. Balasa, Jeffrey B. Sansweet

Hiring an office assistant | Dictation islands | Delegating to MAs | Re-signing bonuses

BALANCING ACT


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