A Devoted Couple - Close-ups - American Family Physician
Dec 1, 2019 - Life-long devotion and a mind-body mortality link between spouses.
American Family Physician : Close-ups
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2019/1201/p709.html
A Diagnostic Approach to Pruritus
...July 15, 2011 ◆ Volume 84, Number 2 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 195 A Diagnostic Approach to Pruritus BRIAN V. REAMY, MD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland CHRISTOPHER W. BUNT, MAJ, USAF, MC, and STACY FLETCHER, CAPT, USAF, MC...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0715/afp20110715p195.pdf
A Diagnostic Approach to Pruritus - American Family Physician
Jul 15, 2011 - Pruritus can be a symptom of a distinct dermatologic condition or of an occult underlying systemic disease. Of the patients referred to a dermatologist for generalized pruritus with no apparent primary cutaneous cause, 14 to 24 percent have a systemic etiology. In the absence of a ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0715/p195.html
A Different Look at Corticosteroids - American Family Physician
Aug 1, 1998 - Systemic corticosteroids have been used in the treatment of numerous medical conditions for approximately 50 years. Short-acting products such as hydrocortisone are the least potent. Prednisone and methylprednisolone, which are intermediate-acting products, are four to five times more ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/1998/0801/p443.html
A Doctor Who Is Blamed for a Patients' Condition - Curbside Consultation - American ...
Nov 1, 2000 - Our colleague faces the situation of having evaluated a patient with diffuse myalgias, fever and nausea. After finding evidence of liver damage and an abnormal CT scan, the patient refused an appropriately recommended MRI, resulting in a delay of the diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma. The...
American Family Physician : Curbside Consultation
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1101/p2157.html
A Dying Patient, Like Me? - Curbside Consultation - American Family Physician
Aug 15, 2000 - When should a physician disclose personal information to a patient, and what do we do when a particular case touches on our own suffering? At a deeper level, how do we deal with our own mortality in caring for the seriously ill and dying?
American Family Physician : Curbside Consultation
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0815/p888.html
A Fall in the Dark - Close-ups - American Family Physician
Apr 15, 2007 - The personal side of medicine told from the patient's perspective. The patient's story is followed by commentary from a physician and a list of resources.
American Family Physician : Close-ups
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0415/p1177.html
A familiar tune -- FPM
A familiar tune
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/a_familiar_tune.html
A Familiar Voice for Family Medicine
His prolific work as a family medicine researcher has given Douglas Kamerow, M.D., M.P.H., global platforms where he can discuss important health issues.
https://www.aafp.org/news/family-doc-focus/20200427fdf-kamerow.html
A Family Physician Confronts Parkinson Disease - Close-ups - American Family Physician
Oct 1, 2015 - Education about promising physical therapies and treatments that may be on the horizon can be a source of encouragement for physicians and patients alike when facing a diagnosis of Parkinson disease.
American Family Physician : Close-ups
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/1001/p568.html
A Family Physician's Legacy -- FPM
Aug 1, 2012 - Some shoes can never be filled.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/0700/p40.html
A Family Physicians' Guide to Monitoring Methotrexate - American Family Physician
Oct 1, 2000 - Methotrexate has a long history of use in the treatment of various immunologic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Although the drug is usually prescribed by a subspecialist, a family physician may assume responsibility for monitoring methotrexate therapy. Major ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1001/p1607.html
A Family's Experience with Perinatal Palliative Care - Close-ups - American Family ...
Apr 1, 2015 - A team of family doctors and nurses who offer maternity care helped two parents focus on what matters most to their family after a heartbreaking diagnosis.
American Family Physician : Close-ups
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0401/p442.html
A Farewell to Charles Smith, Jr., M.D., Deputy Editor - Inside AFP - American Family ...
May 15, 2003 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> May 15, 2003 Issue Inside AFP A Farewell to Charles Smith, Jr., M.D., Deputy Editor Janis Wright Am Fam Physician. 2003 May 15;67(10):2055. As we near the end of this month, we're preparing our goodbyes for one of AFP's long-time...
American Family Physician : Inside AFP
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0515/p2055.html
A Farewell to Clayton Raker Hasser, VP and Group Publisher - Inside AFP - American ...
May 1, 2001 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> May 1, 2001 Issue Inside AFP A Farewell to Clayton Raker Hasser, VP and Group Publisher by Janis Wright Am Fam Physician. 2001 May 1;63(9):1665. Clayton Raker Hasser is about to embark on a new path after her imminent retirement from...
American Family Physician : Inside AFP
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0501/p1665.html
A Feedback Tool to Improve Physician-Medical Assistant Communication -- FPM
Jun 1, 2014 - Using an evaluation form and face-to-face meetings can help get both sides of the team talking and solving problems.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0500/p5.html
A Few Moments of Lifestyle Advice -- FPM
Feb 1, 2014 - With two minutes and two tools, you can help your patients make healthier choices.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0100/p32.html
A Finger Infection in a Pet Store Employee - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Jul 1, 1999 - Photo Quiz presents readers with a clinical challenge based on a photograph or other image.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0701/p245.html
A five-step approach to documenting uncertain diagnoses -- FPM
Disciplined note construction is critical to effective communication between physicians and may also contribute to clearer medical decision making.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/documenting_uncertain_diagnoses.html
A Focus on Mental Health in 2000 - Inside AFP - American Family Physician
Mar 1, 2000 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> Mar 1, 2000 Issue Inside AFP A Focus on Mental Health in 2000 JANIS WRIGHT Am Fam Physician. 2000 Mar 1;61(5):1235. January 2000 ushered in the AAFP's new Annual Clinical Focus (ACF), an educational initiative on mental health. This...
American Family Physician : Inside AFP
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0301/p1235.html
A Focus on the Evidence in Clinical Review Articles - Inside AFP - American Family ...
Jul 15, 2002 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> Jul 15, 2002 Issue Inside AFP A Focus on the Evidence in Clinical Review Articles Janis Wright Am Fam Physician. 2002 Jul 15;66(2):185. The article on page 297 by Michael Pignone, M.D., M.P.H., and Bernard Levin, M.D., represents the...
American Family Physician : Inside AFP
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0715/p185.html
A Food Desert Reveals Much About Health -- and Community
A Food Desert Reveals Much About Health -- and Community
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/a_food_desert_reveals_much.html
A four-step approach to clinical decision making -- FPM
Although there is no one correct method for clinical decision making, it can be helpful to think about your approach so you can refine it as needed and improve patient care.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/decision_making.html
A Fundamental Asset in Health Care: Valuing Family Physicians
...A Fundamental Asset in Health Care: Valuing Family Physicians MACRAready The Shift to Value-Based Payment July 2016 Family physicians are invaluable assets in the health care system. Focused on the whole patient (as compared to subspecialists who typically focus on a single...
Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/practice_management/payment/Valuing-FPs.pdf
A Fungating Lesion on the Tongue
March 15, 2016 Photo Quiz
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0401/afp20160401p599.pdf
A Fungating Lesion on the Tongue - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Apr 1, 2016 - A man with a history of tobacco and alcohol use presented with a lesion on his tongue that he first noticed six months earlier as small red dots.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0401/p599.html
A Funny Thing Happened Today at the Office -- FPM
Jun 1, 2003 - Laughter is the best medicine. And medicine often makes for the best laughter.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0600/p80.html
A Gastrointestinal Review - Inside AFP - American Family Physician
Mar 1, 2004 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> Mar 1, 2004 Issue Inside AFP A Gastrointestinal Review Janis Wright Am Fam Physician. 2004 Mar 1;69(5):1023. Partly inspired by the stomach viruses going around this time of year, and partly inspired by the amount of work on our...
American Family Physician : Inside AFP
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0301/p1023.html
A Geometric Summertime Rash
May 1, 2015 Photo Quiz
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0501/afp20150501p649.pdf
A Geometric Summertime Rash - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
May 1, 2015 - A girl with a history of asthma and eczema presented with burning rash on her legs after exposure to limes.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0501/p649.html
A Gift for Our Peer Reviewers: CME Credit -- FPM
Dec 1, 2004 - A special thank-you to FPM's peer review team and announcement of CME prescribe credit for reviewing manuscripts beginning Jan. 2005.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/1100/p11.html
A Group Practice Disagrees About Offering Contraception - Curbside Consultation - ...
Mar 15, 2002 - This case concerns the justification of moral constraints that a physician group decides to apply to itself in the provision of patient services. Family physicians confront this issue with regard to reproductive medical services and state laws such as those in Oregon regarding ...
American Family Physician : Curbside Consultation
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0315/p1230.html
A Guide to Tobacco Cessation Group Visits
...1 a guide to tobacco cessation group visits Table of Contents What Are Group Visits? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Why Offer Group Visits? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Preparing for a Tobacco...
Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/tobacco/group-visit-guide.pdf
A Guidebook to the Health Equity Curricular Toolkit
...STARFIELD II HEALTH EQUITY SUMMIT PRIMARY CARE’S ROLE IN ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY A guidebook to the HEALTH EQUITY CURRICULAR TOOLKIT Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. Martin Luther King Jr. Chicago, 1966...
Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/everyone_project/health-equity-toolkit/hops19-he-guidebook.pdf
A happy new year, indeed! -- FPM
A happy new year, indeed!
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/a_happy_new_year_indeed.html
A Happy New Year's greeting from CMS -- FPM
A Happy New Year's greeting from CMS
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/a_cms_holiday_greeting.html
A Healthy Woman with Right Upper Quadrant Discomfort on Deep Palpation - Photo Quiz - ...
Jun 15, 2005 - Photo Quiz presents readers with a clinical challenge based on a photograph or other image.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0615/p2353.html
A Hearing Problem - Curbside Consultation - American Family Physician
Sep 1, 2002 - This brief vignette raises questions about the biopsychosocial aspects of presbycusis. The answers to these questions can help guide clinical strategies for patients with hearing loss and their family members.
American Family Physician : Curbside Consultation
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0901/p911.html
A Helmet to the Flank
July 15, 2014 Photo Quiz
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0715/afp20140715p119.pdf
A Helmet to the Flank - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Jul 15, 2014 - Photo Quiz presents readers with a clinical challenge based on a photograph or other image.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0715/p119.html
A Hiring Manager's Perspective on the Art of Interviewing
Are you looking for a job or preparing for residency interviews? Hiring manager Natasha Bhuyan, M.D., tells you what she's looking for when she's interviewing candidates.
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20180910fp-interviewer.html
A Home Visit
...254 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp Volume 83, Number 3 ◆ February 1, 2011 My doctor is very special because she did a home visit for me. I was having difficulty maintaining my blood pressure, I needed to lose weight, and I had trouble following my doctor’s treatment plan....
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0201/afp20110201p254.pdf
A Home Visit - Close-ups - American Family Physician
Feb 1, 2011 - The personal side of medicine told from the patient's perspective. The patient's story is followed by commentary from a physician and a list of resources.
American Family Physician : Close-ups
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0201/p254.html
A Job-Share Model for the New Millenium -- FPM
Sep 1, 2002 - This approach to family practice assures continuity of care for your patients as well as a healthy life balance and a decent paycheck for you.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0900/p29.html
A Job-Share Model for the New Millennium -- Family Practice Management
...In theory, the broad scope of family prac-tice ensures comprehensive and continu-ous patient care, but in reality, manyfamily physicians are now limiting their hours and restricting their practices to the office setting. They’ve relinquished hospital, nursing home and home care services...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0900/fpm20020900p29.pdf
A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Otitis Media - Editorials - American ...
Jun 1, 2004 - Advertisement << Previous article Next article >> Jun 1, 2004 Issue Editorials A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Otitis Media THEODORE G. GANIATS, M.D., University of California, San Diego, California ALLAN S. LIEBERTHAL, M.D., Kaiser-Permanente Center, Panorama City,...
American Family Physician : Editorials
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0601/p2537.html
A Jury of One's Peers -- FPM
Dec 1, 2019 - FPM depends on readers like you to review submitted manuscripts and help us deliver useful, high-quality content.
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/1100/p6.html
A Last-Minute Y2K Survival Guide -- FPM
Oct 1, 1999 - Doing some simple contingency planning now will enable your practice to run smoothly in January even if the dire predictions are true.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/1000/p21.html
A Lesion on the Eye - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Mar 1, 2018 - A woman presented with a small, asymptomatic corneal growth on the left eye.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0301/p337.html
A Lesion That Should Raise Suspicion - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Nov 1, 2000 - Photo Quiz presents readers with a clinical challenge based on a photograph or other image.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1101/p2095.html