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What Motivates Staff?

C. Carolyn Thiedke

Good wages and pleasant working conditions are important, but true motivation stems from something deeper.

Five Ways to Retain Good Staff

Roger Shenkel, Cathy Gardner

The most effective strategies won’t cost you a dime.

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Spoofing Spurious Science

Thomas L. Horton

Statistics can be skewed, as shown in this satirical study of the risks surrounding premature aging and death.

LETTERS GETTING PAID

Navigating the Medicare Web Site

Kent J. Moore

A guide to unearthing answers at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Web site.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

A limit to 99214? | When someone else discharges your hospitalized patient | Coding a flu shot | Coding for a delivery by the resident | Same-day E/M & circumcision | Coding assessment and CPR | Observation to inpatient status | Coding for sports event coverage | ICD-9...

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AAFP Congress moves to create political action committee, approves other resolutions | Administrative tasks cost practices thousands | What patients want | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Medicare changes for 2005 | Withholding pay for medical errors | R<sub>x</sub>...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Horses vs zebras VI | A missed appointment

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Keith Borglum, Debra Phairas, Kent J. Moore

Starting a practice in a health professional shortage area | Dictation reminders | Medicare teaching rules

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