Articles
Toward Sensitive Treatment of Obese Patients
Compassionate care will help them even if they never lose a pound.
“You Should See My Doctor”: Cost-Effective Marketing Ideas for Your Practice
Marketing doesn’t have to be expensive, complicated or unethical. To begin, simply treat your current patients right.
Tuning Up Your Patient Schedule
These scheduling tips can help you smooth out the peaks and valleys in your patient flow and increase your bottom line.
From the Editor
Building a New Health Care System
When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,1 the horrifying estimates of morbidity and mortality caused by medical errors made headlines for months. When the follow-up report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System…
Letters
Getting Paid
CPT: What’s New in 2002?
You should be aware of changes in E/M, integumentary, musculoskeletal and lab codes.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Preventive care & the E/M guidelines | Review of blood-gas analysis | Draining a hematoma
Monitor
MONITOR
Medicare physician payments face significant cuts | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Studies document impact of direct-to-consumer ads, rising drug spending | PHYSICIANS AND COMPUTERS | No impact from gatekeeping | The costs of doing…
Improving Patient Care
Race and Preventive Services Delivery
The way to eliminate disparities may be to improve access to family physicians.
Practice Diary
PRACTICE DIARY
Locum tenens | Job security | The oracle
Computers
Looking for a Good Electronic Medical Records System?
This list of criteria for evaluating EMR systems has been developed for family physicians by family physicians.
Ask FPM
ASK FPM
Transcription in the hospital | Free or discounted medications | Reimbursement for frequent home visits
Balancing Act
The Forgotten Art of Setting Goals
If your goals have never moved you to action, the problem may be your goals, not you.