Feb 1998

Features

Solo Practice: The Way of the Future

Douglas Iliff

Selling Your Practice Doesn't Have to Mean Selling Out

Rodger Rothenberger

Business Loans Made Easy

Mark E. Battersby

Making Patient Care Easier Under Multiple Managed Care Plans

John Spicer

Departments

Editor's Page

Which Way to the Future?
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Questions to Ask About Your Accounts Receivable
Judy Capko

Communication Skills

Reducing New Patients' Anxiety During the First Visit
Joseph A. Lieberman, III ; Sloan A. Robinson

FP Stat

Patients Stand by Their HMOs

Monitor

• Health Care Spending Sets Two Records • Medicare Crackdown Nets $7.6 Billion • Physicians Organize in Northwest

Letters

• Lions and Tigers and Elephants?

• When the 'Customer' Isn't Right for Your Practice

• For the Web Surfers

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