Contents tagged with primary care
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Greg Fuller, M.D., to run for AMA alternate delegate
Greg Fuller, M.D., to run for AMA alternate delegate
posted 04.21.11
TAFP member Greg Fuller, M.D., of Keller has put his name in the running to represent the Texas Medical Association as an … more
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More medical students match into family medicine residencies in 2011
More medical students match into family medicine residencies in 2011
posted 03.24.11
Results from the 2011 residency match released by the National Resident Matching Program on March 17 show an … more
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Capitol Update: HHS Commissioner to Senate Finance: Spare primary care
Capitol Update: HHS Commissioner to Senate Finance: Spare primary care
posted 02.10.11
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“No easy choices” in higher ed funding as Senate Finance takes up Article III
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Straus … more
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AAFP chart details increases in primary care CPT codes for 2011
AAFP chart details increases in primary care CPT codes for 2011
Declining conversion factor should have little effect on family physicians
AAFP News Staff
CMS’s release of the final 2011 … more
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Capitol Update: House releases stark budget draft
Capitol Update: House releases stark budget draft
posted 01.19.11
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, laid out the first draft of the state budget Wednesday as he … more
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Youens: Physicians and nurse practitioners work best as a team
Youens: Physicians and nurse practitioners work best as a team
Plus, TAFP explores scope of practice in latest Texas Family Physician magazine
posted 12.09.10
In an editorial published Dec. 7 by … more
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MGMA survey: Primary care physicians report pay increase in 2009
MGMA survey: Primary care physicians report pay increase in 2009
By Kate McCann
Primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and primary care physician assistants experienced an increase in … more
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When it’s bad enough to be good
Health care reform and rescuing primary care
By Tom Banning
TAFP Chief Executive Officer/Executive Vice PresidentThere is an old adage that political leadership is the art of finding a parade and getting in front of it. And the corollary to that axiom is that whether it’s a parade or an angry mob, it’s best to stay in front of it.
The drumbeat for health care reform might be the sound of a marching band or it could be the din of a brute-force mob for whom might makes right and passion wins over reason. Either way, the need to transform our health care system—and in so doing reinvigorate primary care—is being heard, and more importantly, understood by policy makers, opinion leaders, the business community and the public at large.
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The secret to better health care
By Robert Youens, M.D.
TAFP President, 2008-2009Hello, my colleagues. I have this bully pulpit for the next three quarters and intend to use it tastefully to express my opinion about the state of our affairs. So, here we go.
We are fortunate to be practicing the most fundamentally pure and satisfying medical specialty there is. Ours is a specialty of science and understanding, of the head and the heart, and of the definable episode and caring continuity.
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National survey predicts growing shortage of primary care physicians
National survey predicts growing shortage of primary care physicians
Add one more report to the mounting stack of evidence that primary care in America is in short supply and in danger of becoming … more