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Worth While Web: 50 Useful Sites for Family Physicians

Mindi K. McKenna

The World Wide Web can be a tremendous resource for you and your patients if you know where to look. Here's your guide.

Identifying the Causes of Staff Turnover

Judy Capko

You may be able to reduce turnover by finding out how your practice looks through the eyes of your staff.

Seven Tips for Effecting Legislative Change

Roger A. Hofford

Getting involved in state and local politics is another way you can care for your patients and community.

Tailoring New Physicians to Fit Your Practice

Randall Grimshaw

Find out how one group created an orientation program that assimilates new doctors more quickly and creates an increased sense of loyalty.

EDITOR'S PAGE

Web Site Reviewers Wanted: Help Build the Family Practice Web

Robert L. Edsall

People are always marveling (or complaining) about the inconceivable amount of stuff available on the Internet. As Mindi McKenna, PhD, says in this issue, physicians are more likely to use the Internet for personal than for professional purposes, in large measure because...

LETTERS

Patient privacy

Finding the balance

Richard C. Braun

The other side of the EMR story

Correction

GETTING PAID

Billing Medicare for Diabetes Self-Management Training

Kent J. Moore

The reimbursement might make it worth your time to become an accredited diabetes educator.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Documenting a level-V visit | The risk of prescription drug management | Urinalysis in OB care | Fluorescein staining | 90862 + E/M code?

MONITOR

MONITOR

IOM calls for overhaul of health care system | HIPAA privacy rules delayed | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Managed care loses steam | Care guidelines for all | Change of heart | Wide-open spaces | Can't get no satisfaction |...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Focus on the Family, Part II: Does a Family Focus Affect Patient Outcomes?

Robin S. Gotler, Jack H. Medalie, Stephen J. Zyzanski, George E. Kikano, Kurt C. Stange

By being aware of the strengths and limitations of your family focus style, you can help preserve the family in “family practice.”

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Patient advocate | Co-pays

SALARIED FP

Limiting Restrictive Covenants

Michael R. Burke

Don't let a restrictive covenant keep you from signing an employment contract, but don't ignore it either.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Michael J. Schoppmann, Kern Augustine Conroy, null Schoppmann, null PC, J. Landy Damsey, Paula L. Smith, Keith Borglum

Part-time malpractice premiums | Defining repricing | Workers' comp claims | Practice administrator vs. office manager

BALANCING ACT

Five Priority-Setting Traps

Pamela J. Vaccaro

You have an impressive to-do list, but you're still not getting things done. Wonder why?



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