Vol. 60 No. 1
Winter 2009
Cover: It takes a village
Plano’s Christopher Crow, M.D., M.B.A., and his family physician partners upgrade their medical home to a medical village. Take a look at one of the country’s best-run practices.
By Jonathan Nelson
Hill Country healerCompassionate physician, phenomenal father and respected community leader, meet TAFP’s 2008-2009 Family Physician of the Year, John P. Ramsay, M.D.
By Kate McCann
SOAPBOX: Demand a CRP test—everybody’s doing it
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Are you ready for the RAC?
YEAR IN REVIEW: TAFP goes for gold in ‘08
ACADEMY UPDATE: The time is ripe for health reform
PERSPECTIVE: Dome stories from a veteran Family Doc of the Day
DEPARTMENTS
FROM YOUR PRESIDENT: Proclaim the value of primary care IN THE NEWS: AAFP wages scope of practice fight | Celebrate two decades of procedures with NPI | A paucity of primary care physicians | Small businesses cut health benefits | Texas ranks low in overall health | Revitalize Texas emergency medicine, stat MEMBER NEWS: Survey reveals docs need help with medical home | Corpus Christi heart health champion dies | TAFP loses two Austin physicians, Academy pioneers | Texas student and resident assume AAFP posts | TAFP member writes informative STD book | San Angelo physician to head medical board FOUNDATION FOCUS
