California Academy of Family Physicians
CAFP champions family medicine for California and helps Family Physicians improve their everyday practice lives.

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California Academy of Family Physicians

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Berkeley Family Physician Named November Member of the Month
CAFP is pleased to announce Elise Singer, MD as its November Member of the Month. Dr. Singer is an MBA student at Haas School of Business and a board certified geriatrician and family physician. Most recently, Dr...
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California Academy of Family Physicians

CAFP Accepting Nominations for Family Physician of the Year
Nominations for CAFP's 2010 Family Physician of the Year award are now being accepted...
California Academy of Family Physicians

California Academy of Family Physicians

AAFP Endorses House Approach to Reform
In a November 3, 2009 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, AAFP endorsed the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) and the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act (HR 3961), introduced by Representative John Dingell and other health care leaders in the House...
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California Academy of Family Physicians

Outside The Box Again
Posted on 11.2.09 by Sharon Lin, DO Now that I've had a few weeks to recuperate from long inpatient hours, I'm feeling more alive. It's been a few months now that I've neglected thinking outside the box...
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California Academy of Family Physicians

CAFP This Week (11/02/09)
Posted on 11.02.09 by Executive Vice President Susan Hogeland, CAE Another busy week is on tap for CAFP as we continue our engagement in the health care reform debate...
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California Academy of Family Physicians

The House of Medicine Could Use a Good Handyman
Postedon 10.26.09 by Carla Kakutani, MD Certain things always happen every year at the CMA House of Delegates. Awards are given out, CALPAC raises money, the tide of a debate suddenly turns 180 degrees based on impassioned oratory at the microphone...
October 26 at 6:36pm
Hal Grotke
Hal Grotke
I am President-Elect of Humboldt Del Norte County Medical Society. Several months ago we polled our membership about health care reform. This was after inaugeration but before any action was taken in Congress. 75% of our members indicated support for "single payer" as the solution to what ails health care in the US and in California. When I ... Read Moreproposed to our executive committee that we send letter of support for AB 810 to our representatives in the State House I was told by one of the trustees of HOD and by then Vice Speaker of HOD that as a component of CMA we could not publicly express dissent and that we could only take that opinion to HOD. Apparently we liberals way up north are way more conservative than are the conservatives in LA.
October 26 at 5:50pm
Carla Kakutani
Carla Kakutani
Hal, I'm going to take your medical society's opinion with me as evidence when CAFP has it's Single Payer Task Force meeting in December. CAFP did an unscientific poll about 2 yrs ago and 60+ % were in favor of single payer. I don't think CAFP should take a yes or no stand on single payer, because the devil is in the details. But we can come up with principles that we can support and use to eval future single payer proposals. I'd love you to email me your ideas on this subject!
October 26 at 9:43pm
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California Academy of Family Physicians

CAFP This Week (10/26/09)
Posted on 10.26.09 by Executive Vice President Susan Hogeland, CAE   ...
Hal Grotke

Hal Grotke Last week I got a new medical student. He had spent the first week of his rotation somewhere else but made the change because he wanted to see more variety. At the end of his first week with me he said, "there is no shortage of pathology here." Rural family medicine rocks!

California Academy of Family Physicians

California Academy of Family Physicians

Workforce: A Strong Workforce Will Get Our Message Out
By Geoff Leung, MD The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a key component of the health care reform legislation currently debated by Congress. Effective implementation of the PCMH will require a significant increase in the supply of family physicians and other primary care physicians...
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California Academy of Family Physicians

Professional Community: Ways to Foster a Professional Community
By Jack Chou, MD Communication conduits are an integral part of any home and business. Incorpo­rating them as part of any construction project is essential for ease of future upgrade in the ever-changing world of communication. Building a professional community is no exception....
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California Academy of Family Physicians

Advocacy: Legislative Activities are Key
By Carla Kakutani, MD There is no doubt that advocacy is a key activity at CAFP, but the question for us was to decide how we could best use our advocacy firepower to support the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and family medicine over the next three years...
California Academy of Family Physicians

California Academy of Family Physicians

Rising Sun
Posted on 10.12.09 by Sharon Lin, DO It's beenfour months since I started mysecond year of residency and I started off with three tough months of inpatient work and another month of Spanish emersion abroad in between...
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California Academy of Family Physicians Join the Stanislaus Chapter and CAFP Director of Govermnent Relations Tom Riley for the "Family Medicine Advocacy Forum" dinner meeting at Del Rio Country Club this Thursday, October 22 at 6 pm.