President of the AAFP on the Future of Primary Care
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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has over 137,000 physician members and is one of the largest medical organizations in the country. While some physicians who specialize in pediatrics, OB/GYN, internal medicine, and psychiatry also provide primary care, the vast majority of primary care still comes from family medicine physicians. Interests within the AAFP vary widely and include all sorts of topics such as rural medicine, LGBTQ care, population health, direct primary care, point of care ultrasound, and many others.
Medicare payments. Prevention over disease treatment. Inflation. COVID-19 vaccination. Value based care. This is in the first 5 minutes of this video. Thank you to Dr. Qiu for doing the interview. But this is going to be the rhetoric over the next few decades in primary care: how to get more of the healthcare spending dollars.
I appreciate what organizations like AAFP do but it's the opposite direction of what I want my practice to look like and how I want my own primary care doctor to be.
Medicare payments. Prevention over disease treatment. Inflation. COVID-19 vaccination. Value based care. This is in the first 5 minutes of this video. Thank you to Dr. Qiu for doing the interview. But this is going to be the rhetoric over the next few decades in primary care: how to get more of the healthcare spending dollars.
I appreciate what organizations like AAFP do but it's the opposite direction of what I want my practice to look like and how I want my own primary care doctor to be.