Contents tagged with primary care
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The Primary Solution: Mending Texas’ Fractured Health Care System
The Primary Solution: Mending Texas’ Fractured Health Care System
By Jonathan Nelson, Kate McCann, Tom Banning, Carrie Kroll and Michelle Romero
As we prepare for the 2009 legislative session, … more
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Rewards and challenges of family medicine
From the inaugural address of TAFP’s new president
By Robert Youens, M.D.
TAFP President, 2008-2009I’m a board-certified, residency-trained family physician starting my 30th year of practice in Weimar, Texas. My grandfather started practicing in my community 100 years ago and my father started 60 years ago. Sometimes I feel that I am simply a continuation of that one spirit. I love what I do. I love what our specialty does and I embrace its uniqueness. The longer I am at this business the more I realize how our particular brand of medicine is what’s best for all patients. Our holistic approach to the treatment of our patients continues to make us the best specialty on which to found a health care system. As the president of TAFP, I will continue our efforts to reinforce the truths that have been known to us and proven by repeated studies that family medicine delivers better outcomes at lower cost. We will continue to actively participate in any arena that will allow us to promote and support our proper place in the health care of our nation.
We need to be properly paid for what we do and TAFP will be there for any effort, including defining a medical home, that will get this done.
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A matter of supply and demand
A matter of supply and demand
By Kate McCann
Attention family physicians: Texas needs you. Yes, the U.S. population is increasing—and getting older on average—but as in most things, the problem … more
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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