Apr 2005
Features
Ten Steps to HIPAA Security Compliance
What a Medical Assistant Can Do for Your Practice
Encouraging News About Family Physician Recruitment
Making Every Minute Count: Tools to Improve Office Efficiency
Departments
Editor's Page
The Match and the Future of Family Medicine
Robert L. Edsall
Editorial
The Ethics of Alternative Medicine: An Alternative Standard?
James L. Glazer
Getting Paid
How to Conduct a "Welcome to Medicare" Visit
Randall O. Card
Improving Patient Care
Keys to Improving Your Listening Skills
Marie E. Brittin
Computers
Free Medical Applications for Your PDA
Tim Ferenchick
Balancing Act
Having It All, a Little at a Time
Carla Jardim
Letters
• Is It OK to Treat Your Kids?
Coding & Documentation
• Appropriate Use of 99050 • Biopsy vs. Excision • Multiple Re-evaluations and Therapies in One Visit
Monitor
• Match Day 2005: Family Medicine Gains Positions, Loses U.S. Seniors • Study Explores Link Between Physician Supply and Mortality Rates • Patients Want E-mail Access to Physicians But Don't Want to Pay • Small Practices Report Success With EHRs
Ask FPM
• Choosing the Right Legal Structure • Setting Up a New Practice • How to Build More Maternity Care Into Your Practice
Practice Diary
• Great Toys • Jury Duty • DNR
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