Career: The Partnership Track – Is It Really for Everybody?
Should you be trying to make partner — or finding another path to success and happiness? Here's how to decide which direction is best for you.

Coding: How Medical Shorthand Can Shortchange You

Finance: When You Want to Expand
Sometimes you need to take risks to grow. Here's how to raise money the right way.

Growth Strategies: Podcasting — More Than Music to the Ears
Internet audio files, or "podcasts," are an easy way to educate yourself about clinical or business issues and an effective way to market your practice. Here's everything a beginner needs to know.

Human Resources: Love in the Afternoon
Think your practice isn't affected by office romance — or, at least, by the possibility of inappropriate relationships between physicians and staff? Think again. Office affairs are never good for a practice. But can you stop them?

Lifestyles: Rediscovering Medicine's Sacred Mission
A conversation with a renowned psychiatrist who reclaimed his personal life and learned to love his job.

Physicians Practice Pearls: Get It Done
Another selection from our popular weekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Five fast ways to boost office efficiency.

Politics and Your Practice: Pick One – Money or Control
In search of a long-term solution to Medicare's troubles.

Practice Management Lab: Pinpointing Your Collections Problems
What should you do when your reports indicate a billing problem?

Practice of the Year: CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
This group of young family physicians embraces change, wows patients, cultivates a great staff, and makes a tidy profit. Find out how they blew us away.

Runners-up: Practice of the Year
Three of our competition's runners-up deserve a tip of the hat. We tell you why.

Second Opinion: Too Many Doctors? Hardly.
Our new column gives physicians a voice. This issue: Why economics is ruining healthcare and what to do about it.

Technology: Healthcare in the Fast Lane
We're not ones to prescribe a gadget for every problem, but there are certain thingamajigs you just shouldn't have to live without.

The Bigger Picture: Finding Your Bliss
Daniel Maison, MD, got happy by keeping it simple.

The Great Practice Makeover: Decision Time
For a small rural practice, it's time to get busy — or start laying off staff.

The Tech Doctor: Streamline Your Practice With Online Services
Web tools you can use.

Your Money: Retirement Planning for the Above-Average
Average Americans can do quite well with conventional tax and retirement strategies. But you're not an average American.