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TAFP members voice opinions on national health care reform on Austin NPR station
TAFP members voice opinions on national health care reform on Austin NPR station
posted 01.14.10
Four family physicians were featured on KUT, the Austin branch of National Public Radio, as part … more
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Welcome to the all-new TAFP.org
posted 02.21.12
Here at TAFP headquarters, we are proud to introduce the completely retooled TAFP.org. The new site features a host of interactive opportunities with the goal of engaging our members in all facets of what the Academy has to offer.
At first you’ll notice that the site is much more graphically inviting, with lots of pictures to highlight various services, opportunities, resources, and news items of interest to family doctors. The home page is designed to introduce you to the site and welcome you to explore the various departments without overwhelming visitors with massive amounts of text and options.
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Welcome to the all-new TAFP.org
Welcome to the all-new TAFP.org
posted 02.21.12
Here at TAFP headquarters, we are proud to introduce the completely retooled TAFP.org. The new site features a host of interactive opportunities … more
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TAFP Press Releases
TAFP press releases
Emily Briggs, MD, MPH, sworn in as TAFP presidentposted November 2022
TAFP installs 2022-2023 officers posted November 2022
Linda Siy, MD, named Texas Family Physician … more
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Media Contacts
Media contacts
The TAFP Communications Department publishes Texas Family Physician quarterly magazine, TAFP News Now and TAFP Products & Services e-newsletters, and other timely tools such as … more
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Hart of Dixie: Feel-good family medicine hits the small screen
By Juleah Williams
Among this season’s new fall line-up comes a new drama from the CW – Hart of Dixie – featuring surgeon-turned-country doctor Zoe Hart. Full disclosure: As can be expected from most CW programming, this show is geared toward a teenage audience and includes enough love triangles and “frenemies” to keep their attention. However, exposing this young population to the benefits of primary care and emphasizing the importance of having a relationship with a personal family physician is crucial to increasing interest in the specialty down the road.
As the story goes, Zoe graduated at the top of her class from medical school and seeks to follow in the footsteps of her father, a cardiothoracic surgeon. After residency she fails to be accepted into a fellowship because her superiors deem her “too cold.” Desperate, she decides to accept the offer of a kind stranger—who turns out to be her real father—to join his family medicine practice as a general practitioner in Bluebell, Ala.
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Members of the Month: J. Mark Anderson, M.D., and Walter Gaman, M.D.
Members of the Month: J. Mark Anderson, M.D., and Walter Gaman, M.D.
Southlake physicians share family medicine with broad audience
posted 10.15.11
As hosts of a popular … more
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With Texas health care in the spotlight, opportunities abound
As could be expected, Gov. Rick Perry’s decision to seek the Republican nomination for president has intensified state and national media scrutiny of Texas’ health care record, particularly regarding the uninsured, Medicaid, health care costs, and our medical liability climate.
TAFP has long been on record in our public positions—from “Fading Away” to “Fractured” to “The Primary Solution”—that starving down our primary care infrastructure and the continued fragmentation of care across the spectrum of settings transcends moral concerns and translates into very real economic consequences that threaten everyone from local taxpayers to employers and families. We have been equally ardent in our position that a vibrant primary care delivery system operating in a healthy liability climate is the solution to the crisis facing our health care delivery system.
Armed with these resources, TAFP’s physician leaders, lobby team, and advocacy staff have routinely briefed top Texas political and health care writers, as well as legislators and their staffs, particularly leading up to and during legislative sessions. Now TAFP has been called upon for similar briefings and interviews by a rapidly growing body of national writers from media outlets as diverse as CBS News, NBC News, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Kaiser Family Foundation and Politico, the Hill, and others.
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TAFP members connect family medicine with decreased health costs
TAFP members connect family medicine with decreased health costs
Decreasing the price tag on health care through preventive medicine has frequented news outlets as one solution to controlling … more