ASSEMBLY EDITION • ORLANDO, FLA.

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Oct. 16, 2004

• New president calls for fairness, decency, respect for all patients
• Patients' awareness of genetics increases their questions
• Deadly diabetes requires aggressive management
• Who should get testosterone replacement therapy?
• Lecture delves into treatment of skin conditions in youngsters
• FPs air concerns, leaders share strategies at town hall meeting
• Journey with cancer brings lessons of faith, hope
• Families whoop it up at Assembly/Wonca Celebration
• Assembly images
• AAFP bestows honors, recognizes achievements
• Presenters win awards for posters

17th World Conference of Family Doctors

• WHO says it needs family physicians to solve global health crisis
• International family medicine consultants share tales of success
• Wonca scrapbook
• Want to strengthen doctor-patient relationship? Listen to patient stories
• New family physicians are reinventing family medicine for the 21st century

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Oct. 15, 2004

• Genomics a 'runaway' hit with FPs
• AAFP Congress takes up flu vaccine, other health issues
• For third consecutive year, AAFP Congress grapples with MC-FP issues
• Delegates seek strategies for tort reform via state constitutions
• Changing your world from paper to digital has many rewards
• Want to improve quality? Increase income? Decrease stress? Team with a PA
• Delegates direct AAFP: Work to end VA prescription policy, begin communication
• AIM challenges FPs to be fitness role models
• Resolutions aim to preserve access to care, enhance patients' awareness of drug costs
• If the patient says spider bite, think MRSA, says pharmacist

17th World Conference of Family Doctors

• Advice from world leader in health behavior
  Prevent chronic disease globally by working locally
• 'We can win this war,' tobacco researcher tells Wonca group
• Speaker shares data on AIDs, urges family physicians to rotate to areas of need
• Wonca staff, World Council members take care of business

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Oct. 14, 2004

• AAFP Congress gives thumbs-up to creating federal PAC
• Delegates elect Larry Fields, M.D., president-elect
• AAFP/Wonca opening ceremony a colorful spectacular
• Resolutions focus on pay for paperwork, coordination of complex care
• Town hall meeting zeroes in on Future of Family Medicine project
• AIM embarks on step two of fitness initiative
• Here's how to tackle hypertension, says speaker
• Addicted patients challenge FPs, speakers say
• Family physicians beef up on cosmetic procedures

17th World Conference of Family Doctors

• Wonca grows; World Council tackles global problems
• Family medicine needs women leaders, says speaker
• Wonca Council elects van Weel president-elect
• Numbers tell the story: The best health care is primary care

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Oct. 12 - 13, 2004

• 2005 Family Physician of the Year is an institution in central Idaho

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Copyright © 2004 by American Academy of Family Physicians.

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