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Are You A SOAPM member?

I can't imagine how anyone with interest in this blog wouldn't also be a SOAPM member. But perhaps someone out there is missing out. SOAPM is, by far, the best source of pediatric practice management information on a national scale. Here's a great re...
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Joe Hagan, M.D. For AAP President

In most of the AAP presidential campaigns over the last 10 years, I'd consider one of the two selected choices to be a good friend. I unintentionally nearly always back the second-place finisher because I live in the practicing-pediatrician world and...
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2013 NCE

Every year, I promise myself that I'll take a lot of notes, get a good night sleep every night, share all the important pediatric experiences I'm having...and then we end up staying up until 1am watching the World Series and I am too exhausted to do ...
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Sample Pediatric Recall Letters

A call went out on SOAPM last week looking for personalized patient recall letters. I've looked at hundreds over the years, so I asked for volunteers. I immediately heard from the wonderful folks at the Child and Adolescent Clinic in Longview, WA, wh...
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AAP NCE Redux

Short of riding the mechanical bulls on Bourbon Street, I think we fulfilled our social requirements at the AAP NCE this week. I starting making a list of people I got to greet, but gave up after 50. And it always remains a treat to meet people I've ...
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Practice Management at the 2012 AAP NCE

In years past, I have gone through the entire NCE schedule and highlighted the talks or meetings I had hoped to crash. This year, Jose Lopez (the manager of the SOAPM section), put this awesome handout together.
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Podcasts/Chip Hart

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I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.
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