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Scope of Practice
• Physician Assistants: PArtners in Medicine • Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice: An Essential Component of Providing Quality Healthcare in California • “Psychopharmacology for Dummies”: Legislative Battles Over Prescription and Hospital Privileges for Psychologists
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Contributors
This Issue’s Contributing Writers
Editor’s Column
What Do Physicians Do That Is So Special?
SDCMS Seminars and events Briefly Noted
New and Rejoining Members, and More …
Ask Your Physician Advocate EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Responding to In-flight Medical Emergencies
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Practice Management
Get Specific About “Unacceptable” Behavior
Public Health
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
Risk Management Medical Record Retention
Evidence-based medicine
CT Colonography • Negative Screening Colonoscopy
Physician Marketplace Classifieds
HISTORY OF MEDICINE Dragon Bone Fever