™ FEBRUARY 2010<br />
VOLUME 4, NUMBER 5<br />
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THE JOURNAL OF URGENT CARE MEDICINE®<br />
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www.jucm.com | The Official Publication of the Urgent Care Association of America<br />
I N T H I S I S S U E<br />
F E A T U R E S<br />
11 The Traveling Patient<br />
28 Building Urgent Care<br />
Referral Relationships<br />
Part 2: EDs, PCPs, and<br />
Specialists<br />
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D E P A R T M E N T S<br />
23 Insights in Images:<br />
Clinical Challenge<br />
25 Abstracts in Urgent Care<br />
32 Occupational Medicine<br />
33 Health Law<br />
35 Coding Q&A<br />
40 Developing Data<br />
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