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41 | Bookshelf 28 | Patient Safety
New Cushing biography fleshes out neurosurgery’s A medical error results in a neurosurgeon’s
founder.
paradigm shift.
Gary Vander Ark, MD
Arnold A. Zeal, MD
50 | Coding Corner 36 | Residents’ Forum
Payers may lag behind Jan. 1 implementation of CPT To evaluate a new job, rank your priorities and do
2006 coding changes. your homework.
Gregory J. Przybylski, MD
K. Michael Webb, MD, and Lawrence S. Chin, MD
35 | Computer Ease 39 | Risk Management
Online learning and performance-assessment tools A physician may be liable when a patient delays
are evolving.
surgery with adverse results.
Joel D. MacDonald, MD
Michael A. Chabraja, JD, and Monica Wehby, MD
49 | In Memoriam
Remembering Lyal G. Leibrock, MD
James R. Bean, MD
32 | Medicolegal Update
Can contracts preclude frivolous lawsuits
Jeffrey Segal, MD, and Michael J. Sacopulos, JD
40 | NREF
NREF corporate partner matches donations
100 percent.
Michele S. Gregory
38 | Timeline
When their residence isn’t the hospital, what do you
call physician trainees
Michael Schulder, MD
42 | Washington Update
Contributors to NPHCA support neurosurgery’s
medical liability campaign.
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