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Member News - Q2 2019
Member News
Texas medical students honor Fort Worth FP Texas medical students recognized Fort Worth family physician Linda M. Siy, MD, with the 2019 C. Frank Webber, MD, Award, for her … more
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Highlights from TAFP’s Interim Session, March 5-7, 2015
Highlights from TAFP’s Interim Session, March 5-7, 2015
Advocating for you and your patients With the Legislature in session, there was extensive discussion about GME funding, Medicaid, scope of … more
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Member of the Month 2013
Meet the 2013 Members of the Month
Nominate the next Member of the Month
If you know a family physician who should be featured as a Member of the Month or if you want to share your story, … more
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Member of the Month: Linda Siy, M.D.
Member of the Month: Linda Siy, M.D.
TAFP past president active in Academy business
posted 07.18.13
In honor of this year’s Annual Session & Scientific Assembly taking place in Fort Worth, the … more
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CAPITOL UPDATE: Watch TAFP's Capitol Report for May 9, 2013
Capitol Update: Watch latest report on TAFP’s priorities in the 83rd Texas Legislature
posted 05.09.13
In this edition of TAFP’s video newscast, Capitol Report, catch up on the progress of TAFP’s … more
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Highlights from TAFP’s Interim Session, March 1-2, 2013
Highlights from TAFP’s Interim Session
The committees, commissions, and sections of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians met in Austin on March 1-2, 2013. The Board of Directors met on Saturday, … more
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Let’s celebrate six decades of family medicine
By Linda Siy, M.D.
TAFP President, 2007-2008Sixty years! 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and to mark the occasion, our TAFP Foundation is promoting a “$60 for Sixty” campaign. You can become a “60” donor this year and join us in celebrating our Academy’s anniversary.
The TAFP Foundation was started a few years later in 1960 under the moniker of Education and Research Institute of General Medicine, then becoming the Family Medicine Foundation in 1974. Eventually it was renamed the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation in 1986. Its role has been to support research, students, residents and education of family physicians.
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Feeling the health insurance squeeze
By Linda Siy, M.D.
TAFP President, 2007-2008We are inundated almost daily with tales of escalating health care costs, exploding health insurance premiums and horror stories from small businesses that have been forced to drop health insurance and families who have lost coverage.
Health care costs have long outpaced the rest of the economy. In 2008, health insurance premiums are projected to increase at more than twice the rate of inflation. Yet most employers simply accept this as a cost of doing business. But what are we getting in return for these exorbitant health insurance premiums?
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