Family Practice featured in Life
Family practice was highlighted in the cover story of the June Life magazine. The cover story, "Country Doctor," is a 10-page profile of family physician (and AAFP member) David Loxterkamp, M.D., of Belfast, Maine.
The profile includes 35 black-and-while photographs -- including the cover shot of Loxterkamp delivering a baby and another of him serving on the school board.
AAFP public relations staff provided the story's author with information about the specialty and a copy of the AAFP's 50th anniversary book, Caring for America: The Story of Family Practice.
Loxterkamp's story comes 50 years after a Life photo-essay by the same name, which spotlighted Ernest Ceriani, M.D., a general practitioner in Kremmling, Colo. Loxterkamp said he first saw that article at the age of 13, shortly after the death of his father, also a general practitioner. The pictures "gave him a window into his father's life and led him to become a country doctor himself," the 1998 story says.
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