May 2002 • Volume 8 • Number 5

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Headlines

• OTC medicine alert!
  Educate patients in their quest to self-treat

• AAFP's OTC monograph can help

• More Medicare physician payment cuts on horizon

• Lower payments force FPs to risk personal loss for their patients, practices

• Computerized ABFP exams coming soon

• To help resolve dilemmas of the uninsured, promote AAFP plan

• Academy's blueprint at your fingertips

• Prevent violence, help heal broken relationships

• Who better than family physicians to mediate family conflict?

• Sound familiar? It might be you!

• Don't miss CMS deadline to comply with HIPAA rules

• HIPAA privacy rule revisions would dump mandatory patient consent forms

• Great expectations
  Perspectives on first-year residency

• 2002 National Conference promises opportunities for dialogue

• Check out these grants and awards deadlines

• Want to help shape AAFP policies, programs? Or know someone who does?

• FPs forge link between individual, community health, Board chair tells educators

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Departments

• Letter to the Editor

• Quick Fax - Available on AAFP Express

• New for You - Order products from AAFP

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Copyright © 2002 by American Academy of Family Physicians.

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