Medical Practice

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Managed Care July 2006 John Marcille	From the Grass Roots, A Demand for Health Security Fallout from the Medicare Modernization Act promises to rain down for years to come.
Managed Care July 2006 Michael S. Victoroff	Guide to Critical Care Ethics Not Ready for Prime Time A potential useful volume on ethics in critical care falls short of expectations, often skimming the surface of important debates.
Managed Care July 2006	Physician Satisfaction Study Surprises A new study suggests that physicians working in areas where there is an extensive medical infrastructure are less happy with the quality of the care they provide than doctors working elsewhere.
Managed Care July 2006	Education Concerns Push Back Florida's Medicaid Experiment The greatly anticipated meeting between Medicaid and managed care that's expected to take place in Florida has been delayed.
Managed Care July 2006	AMA Lays Down Guidelines For Retail Clinics The American Medical Association came out with nine guidelines that the organization suggests store-based clinics follow. Not surprisingly, the rules stipulate a doctor's role in such a clinic. Here are some of those guidelines.
Managed Care July 2006	Physicians' Real Income Continues to Fall Adjusted for inflation, physicians' net income from the practice of medicine declined 7% between 1995 and 2003, according to a national study.
Managed Care July 2006 Thomas Morrow	Device Allows Doctors to See Inside the Small Intestine How small is small? The latest digital camera, known as the PillCam, takes images of a patient's inner space.
American Family Physician July 15, 2006 Okuyemi et al.	Interventions to Facilitate Smoking Cessation Family physicians, who see many tobacco addicted patients in their offices every year, have an important opportunity to decrease smoking rates with office-based interventions.
American Family Physician July 15, 2006 Mehta et al.	Opportunities to Improve Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease Family physicians play a crucial role in instituting evidence-based preventive sickle cell care strategies, initiating timely treatment of acute illness, recognizing life-threatening episodes, and providing a medical home for multidisciplinary management.
American Family Physician July 15, 2006 Sally A. Mravcak	Primary Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women Physicians can improve care for lesbians and bisexual women by acknowledging the potential barriers to care (e.g., hesitancy of physicians to inquire about sexual orientation and of patients to disclose their sexual behavior) and working to create a therapeutic physician-patient relationship.
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