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February 2008 - AAFP Publications
AAFP 2208 Environmental Scan
The AAFP has just made available to members it's annual Environmental Scan which it uses to "chart the course" for the association for the upcoming year. Watch the AAFP's video (at right) and then, if you're an AAFP member, request a copy of the scan by e-mailing ann@aafp.org.

January 2008 - AAFP News Now (ANN) - Requires AAFP membership
» From the President - Help Move U.S. Health System to Primary Care Base
"If you're like many Americans, you've been glued to your TV set for many an evening this month, watching presidential candidates challenge one another on issues, including our top pick: health system reform..."

February 7 , 2008 - The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
» Market-Based Failure - A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs
Robert Kuttner opines that markets and competition which are said to optimize efficiencies and contain costs haven't worked for medicine — and in fact have exacerbated escalating costs, dwindling insurance coverage and the deterioration of both medical practices and patients' health. Kuttner calls unequivocally for national health care.

2007 STFM Plenary Presentation
Family Doctors, Family Farmers and ATMs
This eye-opening, holistic take on the transformation of primary care in America by Kevin Grumbach, MD illustrates "how farming and banking may hold lessons about the changes, good and bad, that we contend with in family medicine, and our tasks for shaping a healthy and productive future."