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American Family Physician
July 1, 2000 |
AFP 50 Years Ago Report on Internships and Residency Training for General Practice   |
AskMen.com
April 15, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look... |
American Family Physician
November 15, 2004
Genevieve Ressel |
Newsletter AAFP Selects New Officers and Board Members for Upcoming Year... AAFP Chooses 2005 Family Physician of the Year... Physicians in Shortage Areas Will Get Bonus Fee Payment in 2005... etc. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000 |
Policy Center One-Pager The Effect of Accredited Rural Training Tracks on Physician Placement |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2000 |
AAFP Position Paper Colonoscopy: Procedural Skills for Nonspecialists |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2006 |
Getting Your Child to Take Medicine What to do if you child won't take his/her medicine. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Jack McCain |
Use of Hospitalists: Another Case of 'May' vs. 'Must' Despite a movement to ban mandatory use of these physicians, their numbers and influence are rising as their roles become better understood... |
Managed Care
June 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery. |
Managed Care
February 2002
Alan M. Muney |
Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties... |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2001
Scott C. Conley |
Deep Waters A physician can actually achieve significant therapeutic benefit for a patient by addressing the manifestations of an illness that no stethoscope or laboratory test can detect. Simply put, there is healing power in words. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000 |
Letters to the Editor On whether physicians should be 'Bending the Rules to Get a Medication'... |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2007 |
Newsletter Title VII Funds Increase in 2007 Continuing Appropriations Resolution... Medicaid Enrollment Numbers Fall After Introduction of New Rule... AAFP Responds to HPV Vaccination Requirement for School Entry... etc. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
James Warren |
Commentary: General Practitioners Need to Make More Money These doctors are grossly underpaid compared with specialists. A federal panel wants to reduce the discrepancy. |
Managed Care
November 2003
Patrick Mullen |
Physician Executives Need Not Fly Blind Kathleen Montgomery is in the forefront of efforts to define the unique domain of doctors who become managers. One thing she knows for sure: Trustworthiness is everything. |
Managed Care
September 1999
Ed Rabinowitz |
Is There a Doctor in the House? The per-visit cost of a house call is high, but used judiciously, this practice can lower overall medical costs -- not to mention provide better care. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2005
Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2004
Genevieve Ressel |
Newsletter AFMO Launches Web Site for Family Medicine Research... CMS Eliminates Grace Period for Expired Codes... AAFP Publishes Resource for Starting a Medical Practice... AAFP Board Approves Recommendation to Double EB CME Credit... etc. |
Reason
June 2003
Chris Mooney |
Quacks and Flacks The pitfalls of seeking a scientific foundation for alternative medicine |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2005
Carrie Morantz |
Newsletter AMA, AAFP Act to Protect Patients' Access to Prescriptions... AHRQ Releases Updated Guide to Clinical Preventive Services... HHS Awards $80.5 Million in Grants to Reduce Infant Mortality Rates... etc. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2011
Jerry Coamey |
Engage the Physician! New research shows that gauging the mind of the clinician is crucial to timely uptake of the new diagnostic tools offered by the genomic revolution |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2007 |
Newsletter Congress Passes Legislation That Prevents Medicare Payment Cut... Congress Approves Extension of Physicians for Underserved Areas Act... HHS Unveils Four Cornerstones of Value-Driven Health Care System... etc. |
Managed Care
July 2006 |
Physicians' Real Income Continues to Fall Adjusted for inflation, physicians' net income from the practice of medicine declined 7% between 1995 and 2003, according to a national study. |
Salon.com
December 1, 1999
James B. Stewart |
Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help... |
Information Today
December 1, 2008 |
Free Resource--Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine has launched online and is freely available in beta. More than 650 world experts have provided a definitive resource on the latest therapeutic options in women's medicine. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2002
Forrest Lang |
Interviewing When Family Members Are Present The presence of family members at an office visit creates unique opportunities and challenges for the physician while interviewing the patient. The physician must address issues of confidentiality, privacy, and agency... |
Job Journal
August 24, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Psychiatrist Psychiatrists tend to the mental well-being of society. |
BusinessWeek
March 20, 2006 |
The Guru of Anti-Aging There's plenty doctors can do to control the effects of old age, says a leading light in the anti-aging medical movement. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2007
Michael Goodman |
A Very Specialty Moment Big Pharma is on a shopping spree for biologics and other specialty products. It has the money to buy them. But does it have the mojo to develop and market them successfully - or will the mid-size biopharmas make their big move? |
Managed Care
September 2002
Bob Carlson |
Here and There, Work Is Under Way to Reform Med School Curriculum Are new physicians learning everything they should about how pieces of the health care system should work together? No. Is progress being made? Yes. |
Managed Care
September 2004
Tony Berberabe |
Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice. |
Information Today
October 10, 2013 |
ACP Smart Medicine Joins OvidSP Wolters Kluwer Health expanded its partnership with the American College of Physicians, making ACP Smart Medicine available on Wolters Kluwer Health's OvidSP medical research platform. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Pat Wechsler |
The Coming U.S. Doctor Shortage Health-care reform will mean 30 million more patients -- and bigger crowds in waiting rooms |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Docs Spend More Time, Not Less, With Patients Now Confounding conventional wisdom, researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine have found that the spread of managed care during the past decade has not reduced the amount of time spent with patients... |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2007 |
Newsletter Health Care Alliance Announces Proposal to Cover Uninsured... Health Coverage, Physician Payment Are Priorities for AAFP Chapters... Supreme Court Refuses to Hear NRMP Antitrust Lawsuit... etc. |
Managed Care
December 2007
John Carroll |
How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use. |
American Family Physician
November 15, 2005
Sarah J. Evans |
Newsletter AAFP Survey Shows Increased Use of EHR Systems by FPs... AHRQ Launches New Health Care Program... AAFP Asks Members to Join Title VII Campaign... AHRQ Rewards Over $22.3 Million for Health Information Technology... etc. |
Fast Company
September 2013 |
Are Specialized MBA Programs the Cure for Sickly Enrollment? With business school enrollment on the decline nationwide, Indiana University welcomes a curious crop of grad students this semester: doctors studying the business of medicine. |
Managed Care
March 2006 |
Standard Measures In Works For P4P Push Uncle Sam has decided to get behind the pay-for-performance effort in a big way, something some physician associations are less than thrilled about. |
Managed Care
April 2006
John Carroll |
Some Specialist Societies Feel Left Out of AMA-CMS Deal on P4P Many physicians question the fairness of a deal between the American Medical Association and the government that give doctors a bonus when they follow certain rules. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2000
Rosemarie Sweeney & Toni Lapp |
Newsletter AAFP Urges Response to Violent Video Games... New Grants to Help Enroll Rural Children in SCHIP, Medicaid... AAFP Announces New Staff Members at Policy Center... Lupus Research Group Sets 10-Year Goal to Find Cure... Hospitals Challenged to Take Action on Patient Safety... |
Managed Care
June 2007
MargaretAnn Cross |
What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans Insurers fear rising costs and poorer outcomes if members are less able to get appointments with family physicians and general internists. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2001
Kathy Soch |
Diary from a Week in Practice Today, the medical student and the mother learned about hand, foot and mouth disease... Practicing medicine is a lot easier when we remember to go to the patients for clues about how to treat them... etc. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Arthur Lazarus |
Expert Opinions Create Liability for Physicians Physicians cannot rely on courts, drug companies, or HMOs to protect their freedom of speech. Their experience and knowledge form the foundation of all medical opinion. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2006 |
Tips for Using Medicines Wisely A patient guide and suggestions for safe medicine use. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
Managed Care
December 2005
Ricardo Guggenheim |
Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system. |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2006
Arlene Weintraub |
Cracking Down on Pharma Swag Several medical centers are barring their doctors from accepting freebies like pens and lunches from any vendor. Here's why. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2004
Genevieve Ressel |
Newsletter FDA Warns Against Using Domperidone to Increase Breast Milk Production... AAFP Members Visit Lawmakers in Washington, D.C... CDC Reports Data on Suicide Behaviors, Risk Factors, and Prevention... etc. |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2001
Gowri Anandarajah & Ellen Hight |
Spirituality and Medical Practice Using the HOPE Questions as a Practical Tool for Spiritual Assessment |
