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FEATURES

Going Solo: One Doc, One Room, One Year Later

Gordon Moore

This unorthodox practice, built on four “ideal” principles, is steadily proving itself a success.

How to Recruit New Residency Graduates

James M. Giovino

Begin by understanding what makes them tick.

Reducing Waits and Delays in the Referral Process

Mark Murray

By formalizing your referral relationships, you can make life easier for you and your patients.

EDITOR’S PAGE

Reducing Practice to Its Essentials

Robert L. Edsall

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot!

LETTERS

Coding discrepancies

Jaymi S. Meyers

Learning from those who’ve left family practice

Time to re-examine physician training

Paul Henderson

GETTING PAID

11 Tips for More Productive Billing

Maria V. Ciletti

Keep cash flowing with these easy-to-implement strategies.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Answers to Your Questions

Kent J. Moore

Comparing excision codes | Extra prenatal visits | Coding flexible sigmoidoscopy

MONITOR

MONITOR

Renewed debate: Is there a physician shortage? | Severe vaccine shortage results in rationing | Why patients leave | Updating the Hippocratic oath | Waived test list available online | Get ready to haggle

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

What Every Physician Should Know About Generic Drugs

Phil Mohler, Steve Nolan

Are generic drugs second-class medicine or prudent prescribing?

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Community relations | First refusal

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

David C. Kibbe, Keith Borglum

HIPAA translation software | Creating an employee manual

BALANCING ACT

Time Management Tips That Work

Pamela J. Vaccaro

The best strategies first help you identify what really matters to you in life.



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