Nov-Dec 2004

Features

Why It's Time to Purchase an Electronic Health Record System

Kenneth G. Adler

Negotiating Your Semi-Retirement Package

Daniel M. Bernick

What Motivates Staff?

C. Carolyn Thiedke

Five Ways to Retain Good Staff

Roger C. Shenkel; Cathy Gardner

Do You Have the Right Malpractice Insurance Policy?

David Dearden; Michael R. Burke

Departments

Editor's Page

A Gift for Our Peer Reviewers: CME Credit
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

Spoofing Spurious Science
Thomas L. Horton

Getting Paid

Navigating the Medicare Web Site
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Estimating the Risks of Coronary Angioplasty
Mark H. Ebell

Balancing Act

Using Updates to Ease Your Workday and Your Mind
Pamela J. Vaccaro

Letters

• An Apostle of "Big Ideas"

• Including Deaf Patients in the Conversation

• Rational World a Better Environment for Physicians

• Accentuating the Positive in Family Medicine

• Creating the Lifestyle You Want

• Put Yourself in Patients' Shoes

• Crunching the Numbers

• "Listen" Article Inspires Med Student

Coding & Documentation

• 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 Code for Hearing Loss • Maintenance of a PICC Line

Monitor

• AAFP Congress Moves to Create Political Action Committee, Approves Other Resolutions • Administrative Tasks Cost Practices Thousands • What Patients Want • Make Sure Patients Are Ready for the Doctor

Ask FPM

• Starting a Practice in a Health Professional Shortage Area • Dictation Reminders • Medicare Teaching Rules

Practice Diary

• Horses vs. Zebras VI • A Missed Appointment

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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