www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 43 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y L A R R Y J O ST Few non-clinical issues have created as much controversy as the CPT codes for evaluation and management (E/M) services and the accompanying documentation guidelines. They have spurred a cottage industry of templates, cheat sheets, score cards, tool kits and the like, all designed t...

If the brain is the body’s central processing unit, then the blood–brain barrier is its firewall. A specialized network of cells that lines the brain’s vascular system, the blood–brain barrier selectively ushers in nutrients and other essential biomolecules while denying entry to most everything else. But the same system that protects the brain also stymies many therapeutics that could potentia...

Modern sociologists have been puzzled by the innate anti-urbanism and love of 'nature' of the English. For instance, Mann notes that 'the attraction of the rural residence and urban work is very apparent'. The only explanation he can give is to follow Anthony Sampson, and argue in a circular way, that it is 'part of the Englishman's basic desire to become a landed aristocrat'.' 2 This is one as...

INTRODUCTION The isolated island nation of Madagascar has substantial prevalence of both smoking and smokeless tobacco use, although not of dual use. Madagascar's tobacco market, much like its historical and cultural underpinnings, appears to have both Asian and African influences. Additionally, it has a unique market structure that plays an important role in influencing patterns of tobacco use...

Handloom is the mostly widely established cottage industry of North East India (NE) that is most wide spread throughout the region. It employs a large skilled and unskilled workforce and which, in North East, mainly consists of women workers. In the present era of commercialization, handloom sector is also witnessing changes and large number, of women are adopting the weaving activity as their ...

A STRIKING change in empirical macroeconomics in the 1980s has been the development of an alternative way to think about aggregate trends and cycles. Traditionally, aggregate series such as gross national product have been modeled as stationary processes about a deterministic trend. All aggregate fluctuations were thus short-run phenomena with no bearing on the long-run behavior of the economy....

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The practice of medicine is more resistant to change than even industry or education when it is presented with advances in science or technology. Until the discovery of the sulphonamides in the late I930s, when clinical scienc{e did not exist even as a name, there was no need for change in the institutions delivering the static medical knowledge in general practice, in hospital, or in public he...