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  1. Getting paid for prevention: Physicians facing coding challenges
  2. New Web site on imaging safety draws criticism
  3. Missouri Supreme Court: Doctors can sue if hospitals ignore bylaws in privileging issues
  4. Aetna launches personalized health search engine
  5. Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009
  6. Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally
  7. Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability
  8. Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum
  9. Patients generally pleased with hospital care
  10. Online feedback site adds doctor category
  11. More physicians backing national coverage -- study
  12. Crimeproof your practice: How to improve office safety
  13. Advanced-practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states
  14. Medicare disease-management pilot faces closure over costs
  15. U.S. report finds sluggish increases in quality of care
  16. Walk-ins welcome, but only if they're healthy
  17. Doctor-staffed retail clinics to open
  18. Boomer loyalty: Insurers draw on a little help from their friends to market pre-Medicare coverage
  19. Hospital told to check bylaws on exclusive deals
  20. Foiling a fake (book excerpt: Charlatan)
  21. Physicians examine the role of annual checkups in prevention
  22. Baby boomer time bomb: Too many aging patients, too few geriatricians
  23. Lawyers' misconduct triggers new liability trials
  24. Harvard offers discount on med school tuition
  25. Doctor disciplinary actions down for 3rd year
  26. Rulings limit patients' ability to sue device firms, drugmakers
  27. Calculate your ideal patient load: How to strike the correct balance
  28. Health plans say they'll risk losing members to protect profit margins
  29. Hospitalized kids found at risk for drug errors
  30. Study: Med schools can boost rural physician supply
  31. Med schools asked to shun drug firm freebies
  32. Misfortune telling: Folding together data to forecast your patients' health futures
  33. Social networking etiquette: Making virtual acquaintances
  34. E-prescribing campaign aims at patients to reach doctors
  35. Gearing up for a graying generation: Training more doctors in geriatrics skills
  36. AMA encourages future physicians
  37. Formula for rationing care: Task forces plan for disaster
  38. Google enters personal health record market
  39. Twilight of the beeper: Today's technology offers other ways of keeping connected
  40. FDA drug safety review to start with Medicare
  41. More Americans find insurance pays for visits to retail clinics
  42. Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice
  43. Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians
  44. Medical schools on target to reach enrollment goals
  45. Minorities underrepresented in California doctor work force
  46. AMA meeting: Physicians demand greater oversight of doctors of nursing
  47. Making the practice switch: One doctor became an employee, the other started his own office
  48. 6 rules cutting Medicaid delayed until 2009
  49. Drug industry: No more free pens, pads or mugs
  50. Med school for judges: A crash course in medical litigation
  51. Kansas court enforces noncompete clause
  52. Dead doctors' IDs used to bilk Medicare
  53. Ethics consultants get doses of realism through simulations
  54. Medicare DME bidding program on hold
  55. Greening your practice: Cutting costs while conserving energy
  56. Final Medicare no-pay rule targets 10 hospital-acquired conditions
  57. Most states said to have good rules on pain medicines
  58. Academic leaders work to ease work force crisis
  59. Work-hour limits found to create little respite for residents
  60. Sponges, surgical instruments miscounted in 13% of surgeries
  61. Doctors decry payment delays after Medicare overhauls carrier system
  62. Court dismisses Arkansas specialty hospital's lawsuit
  63. Medical student stress and burnout leave some with thoughts of suicide
  64. Google uses online queries to see where flu interest is peaking
  65. AAMC report says 30% med school enrollment hike is not enough
  66. Defensive medicine widespread among Massachusetts doctors
  67. Tech-savvy med students fear life without EMRs
  68. Wikipedia often misses important drug facts
  69. TV doctors' flaws become bioethics teaching moments
  70. New treatment guidelines address chronic pain
  71. Shortages forecast for orthopedic surgeons, gastroenterologists
  72. Several states face battles over optometry scope of practice
  73. AMA letter backs Obama's broad principles for health system reform
  74. Doctor gets jail time for online, out-of-state prescribing
  75. Academic physicians avoid burnout by focusing on favorite tasks
  76. Press releases found to exaggerate research findings
  77. Many hospitals cut back on infection-control efforts
  78. Scientific competencies for med students defined
  79. How to reduce your practice's credit card fees
  80. Did a strep infection bring Mozart's finale?
  81. Apologizing for medical errors may not stop you from being sued
  82. Tips on talking money with patients
  83. "I'm sorry": Why is that so hard for doctors to say?
  84. Your practice manager: controlling too much?
  85. Online contact growing between physicians, patients
  86. Lawyer sanctioned for filing frivolous liability lawsuit
  87. Type 2 diabetes early screening cost effective
  88. Idaho orthopedists settle antitrust case over alleged insurer boycotts
  89. No-show rates lowest when patients called by human being
  90. Evidence-based care poorly understood by patients
  91. Primary care gets boost with $250 million in HHS grants
  92. Prompt-pay law extension vetoed in Georgia
  93. More retail clinics opening at Target
  94. Diabetics' A1c, cholesterol levels improve when they join in treatment decisions
  95. Wrong-patient, wrong-site procedures persist despite safety protocol
  96. Drug rep visits rarely result in better prescribing, study says
  97. CMS to revamp IT systems for better integration and service
  98. Facebook "friend" request from patient? French doctors decline
  99. Suicidal thoughts plague one in 16 surgeons
  100. Medical oaths less of a moral compass for physicians
  101. Physicians still in high demand as health care job creation slows
  102. AMA delegates vote to keep conflicts out of CME
  103. Ethics essential in writing practice guidelines, AMA house decides
  104. Why HHS abandoned "mystery shopper" study
  105. Online tool to help consumers estimate medical costs
  106. Mayo Clinic adds Spanish social media sites
  107. Informed-consent documents called too long and complex
  108. Culturally competent practices can drive up good will -- and patient traffic
  109. Most doctors face lawsuits, but few lose them
  110. Physicians rely on search engines to help find clinical information
  111. More patients seeing only allied health workers
  112. Can a computer program teach patient empathy?
  113. Doctors' legal remedies can defeat online attacks
  114. Nearly 90% of physicians feel stressed every day, report says
  115. Doctors have to manage smartphone distractions
  116. Company withdraws contracts controlling online comments by patients
  117. How to conquer clutter in your physician office
  118. Aetna wellness programs available for purchase on Best Buy shelves
  119. Med students to get training to treat PTSD, combat head injuries
  120. Federal rule would ease access for face, hand transplants
  121. Clarity needed on how and when to report medical adverse events
  122. Hospital employment pits work rules against physician rights
  123. Legal immigrants eligible for Massachusetts insurance plan
  124. Medicaid medical homes saved $1 billion in North Carolina
  125. CBO: Raising Medicare age to 67 would save $148 billion over decade
  126. Spending growth on physician services sinks to record low
  127. Big insurers investing in mobile health apps
  128. Practice management companies look to ACOs for growth
  129. CVS retail chain clinics expand while Walgreens operation stalls
  130. States consider requiring physicians to use drug-monitoring databases
  131. Free preventive visit can end in sticker shock for patients
  132. Telemedicine boosting dermatology care