The Great Practice Makeover: RX for Solo FP
She started medical school at middle age. But life experience gave her little advantage when it came time to manage a practice.
Gibbons Family Medicine
A rocky start, a promising future. Practice needs to balance low-key, family approach with tighter financial control.
Oh, Baby!
2005 Practice of the Year: This OB practice really delivers the goods! Learn how its total patient focus put it over the top.
Bedside Manner for the Modern World
You don't have to have the personality of a talk-show host to communicate effectively with your patients. A few simple skills, practiced consistently, make for better outcomes.
Friends Don't Let Friends Build EMRs
Stories from the trenches: A cautionary tale on why practices should get to know their technology vendor before jumping into a costly relationship.
A Little Help From Our Friends
The first Great Practice Makeover hit the road this spring, paying a visit to the physicians of New Horizons for Women and their staff. Our mission? Help them raise revenue and quell culture clashes. Apply our expert advice to your practice.
Know Your Business
How to control key financial indicators in your practice
Build a Stronger Bottom Line
A conversation with billing experts on best practices
Severing the Ties
How to legally end a patient-physician relationship
Get a Life!
STriking a balance between practicing medicine and practicing life
Marketing Made Easy
Good ideas for real-world marketing
Who's Managing Your Finances?
Make informed decisions about financial management
Super Doc?
Profiles of physicians who went into business
It Takes Two
How to handle a physician marriage
Shared Rewards
Are you getting the maximum return on your staff's labor?
The Lifeblood of Your Practice
An interview with Curt Udell on billing and coding
Simplify Your Scheduling
What happens in your practice when there aren't enough new patients to fill those three
Specialists in Demand
Tips for finding and keeping specialists that are in demand. Creativity helps.
Safekeeping for Samples
How to control the drug closet
Move from Medicare to the Market
Nan Andrews Amish explains how to thrive by offering patients what they crave
Secrets of Success
Learn the secrets of the winner of Physicians Practice's first annual Practice of the Year contest
Staff in Conflict
Take steps to resolve staff conflicts
Malpractice Malaise
An update on the medical malpractice crisis and what you can do
The Partnership Track
How to assess if the job is what you want and how to get it
How to Dismiss Problem Patients
You can dismiss patients from your practice - legally - if you take the right precautions
Patient E-mail: Handle With Care
How to reduce risks related to e-mail
Antitrust Q&A
The facts on anti-trust
Room to Grow
Learn how better office design can boost productivity, inexpensively
Letters of the Law
Should you form an LLC, PC or PA? And what does that mean? Find out here.
Charting the Progress of EMRs
Real-world stories of EMR implementation
