News From 2011 Annual Assembly

(9/21/2011, 7:35 p.m.)  --  As the AAFP Congress of Delegates churned toward the close of business Sept. 14 in Orlando, Fla., delegates and other attendees were treated to remarks by guest speaker Nancy Nielsen, M.D., serving in her new role as senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Nielsen, who was president of the AMA from June 2008 to June 2009, immediately connected with the audience when she revealed that her medical specialty was general internal medicine. And, she drew applause when she admitted her pet peeve: "It really makes me crazy when people talk about people who do primary care as primary care physicians and all the other docs as specialists; we are specialists in our field," said Nielsen. More