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Article: So you want to be an office manager?
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- Office Nurse
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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The main job function: Keep the practice running smoothly so the physicians can concentrate on medicine.
Some achieve greatness," wrote Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night," "and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
Ruth Thibeault fits both descriptions. In four years as office manager for Northern Neurosurgery Associates in Marquette, Mich., Thibeault turned a two-doctor partnership mired in snarled billing records into a successful, well-run business.
"No charges had been sent out for two months when I came," Thibeault recalls in her calm voice. "They were in a real financial bind. For two weeks before I started the job, I came in during the ...