Articles
How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians
The legislation isn't perfect, but it makes an important point – that primary care deserves more attention.
How to Be an Efficient and Effective Preceptor
It is possible to do the important work of precepting students and still get home in time for dinner.
Exam Documentation: Charting Within the Guidelines
Yes, it's complicated, but don't make it harder than it has to be.
The 12-Step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 2, Operational Efficiencies
Even small cuts in your operational expenses can add up to big savings for your practice.
From the Editor
Opinion
Why the Medicare Fee Schedule and RVUs Matter to Employed Family Physicians
When Medicare payments are cut, everybody loses, not just self-employed physicians.
Letters
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Pre-colonoscopy visit | Punch biopsy | Wound repair global periods | Cryotherapy for warts
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Show “signs” of your patient commitment | Make use of a free, medical Spanish resource | Use analogies to increase compliance | Decorate your stirrup covers | “Treat every defect as a treasure” | Code diagnoses with a free, web-based look-up tool | Improve your patients' check…
The Last Word
How to Clean Up in Family Medicine
As costs increase, medical practices need to get creative.