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Permanent Family Practice Job in Family Physician with OB for Iowa Iowa with CompHealth Inc
Job 615113 Join prominent group for four Family Physicians OB call 1:5 General call 1:11 Earning potential over $200K Competitive offer with excellent benefits package that includes 6 weeks of vacation
Permanent Family Practice Job in FP Opportunity in Southeast Sunbelt : $200-250K Mississippi with CompHealth Inc
Job 3111383 Traditional FP (Possible outpatient opportunity) 8:30-4:30 with rounding on own patients 20-25 patients a day 4 1/2 day work week Income guarantee: $150-180K (DOE) Realistic production
Permanent Family Practice Job in Family Practice opening - 90 minutes to St. Louis Missouri with CompHealth Inc
Job 513542 Join a group of 4 FP's - call 1-4 Traditional Practice Guaranteed Salary, incentives, revenue from ancillary services and full benefits Multi-cultural community Incentives/Bonus, malpractice

Professional Issues

Primary Care Health Professionals in Short Supply at CHCs
jarvantes@aafp.org Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:00 -0500
The nation's community health centers, or CHCs, are suffering from a shortage of primary care professionals that will continue to worsen unless federal and state governments take steps to boost the primary care workforce. So says a recently released study by the National Association of Community Health Centers, or NACHC, AAFP's Robert Graham Center in Washington and George Washington University.
AMA Appeal to Docs: Complete 2008 Physician Practice Survey
ann@aafp.org Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:40:00 -0500
Were you randomly selected to participate in the AMA's 2008 Physician Practice Information Survey? Selected survey participants from more than 60 medical specialty societies should have received postcards earlier this summer outlining the AMA's efforts to conduct a comprehensive multispecialty survey of America's physicians.
New Health Care Purchasing Guide Promotes Medical Home
jarvantes@aafp.org Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:30:00 -0500
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, or PCPCC, has unveiled a purchaser guide to encourage large buyers of health care to adopt the patient-centered medical home as part of their health care plans. The 37-page booklet, which was released during a PCPCC stakeholders meeting in Washington on July 16, serves as both an educational tool and an informative guide, explaining how health care purchasers can readily make the patient-centered medical home a cornerstone of their health care plans.

Family Medicine Notes

links for 2008-08-22
Jacob Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:01:10 -0000
ulti ulti pro 10 Promising Web Platforms - ReadWriteWeb In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those ......
links for 2008-08-20
Jacob Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:03:12 -0000
Cleveland State researchers find Wii workout rivals real thing - Health and Medical Consumer News - cleveland.com - Cleveland.com Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants - ReadWriteWeb Teaching people how to use new tools on the internet...
links for 2008-08-18
Jacob Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:51:58 -0000
Explaining REST ......
links for 2008-08-16
Jacob Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:31:53 -0000
Traveling for healthcare Rat-brain controlled robot aids memory research Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attention...
links for 2008-08-14
Jacob Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:02:46 -0000
louisgray.com: Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities Kindling Feedback Frenzy: 35+ Customer Service Resources Customer service and Web 2.0 have finally been formally introduced and have gotten rather serious these days. Here are over 35 customer service resources....
Laconica
Jacob Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:13:33 -0000
Laconica is going to be something really big - really soon.  Keep an eye on this.  It's an important part of what will become a key part of application interoperability in the next few years.  Louis Gray has a nice...

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noreply@blogger.com (sydney) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:22:00 -0000
Year's End, Blog's End: I've been making my annual year end inventory - deciding what to keep and what to toss. It's become obvious in the past several months that this blog is one of the things that it's time to toss. This will be the last post for Medpundit. Truly. Wishing you all the best in 2008 and the years beyond.Click to enlarge
Pilgrim Medicine
noreply@blogger.com (sydney) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:31:00 -0000
Thanksgiving Remembrance: Mayflower Medicine.
Genetic Prejudice
noreply@blogger.com (sydney) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:02:00 -0000
Any Excuse Will Do: Any excuse to justifying prejudice, or to stir up fear mongering of what may come: At the same time, genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA. Ancestry tests tell customers what percentage of their genes are from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The heart-disease drug BiDil is marketed exclusively to African-Americans, who seem genetically predisposed to respond to it. Jews are offered prenatal tests for genetic disorders rarely found in other ethnic groups.Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal."We are living through an era of the ascendance of biology, and we have to be very careful," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. "We will all be walking a fine line between using biology and allowing it to be abused."We have been living in an era of ascendant biology since Darwin. Remember eugenics? Jews have been offered prenatal testing long before the mapping of the human genome, as have African-Americans. But prenatal screening is not quite the same as the eugenics movement heyday. So why the hyperventilating? It turns out that the Times is taking its cue from blogs commenting on studies studies like this. Well, if the blogs say that genetics justifies prejudice, it must be true! I never thought I would see the day that the New York Times took that attitude on its front pages. It must be part of their plan to join the internet age. Here's the part that's gotten the Times convinced that genetics is going to bring back the days of institutionalized prejudice:There exists a publicly available gene database, The HapMap Project, that contains random samples of genetic sequences from people in China, Japan, Nigeria, and people in the United States with European ancestry. It’s now possible to search the HapMap database for genes that have been linked with intelligence in published scientific studies. In this manner, we can determine if high intelligence genes occur with greater or lesser frequency in the various races.Now, here’s an interesting point. If even a single gene correlated with intelligence occurs with different frequencies in the different races, this alone proves that there are racial differences in intelligence. How is that? Well, the egalitarian theory holds that every race has identical intelligence. Therefore, whatever genes there are that affect intelligence, they must be distributed exactly equally in all human races. Once even a small race difference is proven, the egalitarian theory is proven false. At that point, it’s only a matter of determining which race has the higher average intelligence based on the genetic evidence.Oh, please. Here's a take home lesson for everyone on the science of genetics, and one that should never be forgotten - these studies are about associations of genes with traits, not the concrete coding of a trait by a given gene. Just because a locus on a chromosome can be found more often in people with schizophrenia than in the general population doesn't mean that everyone with that genetic code in that spot will have schizophrenia, anymore than it means that every sibling of a schizophrenic will have the disease. Ditto with intelligence. Ditto, too, with cancer risks and most other traits and diseases human genome mapping is linking to genes. The essence of a man is not written into his DNA. Here's another important point to remember - our science is still young and uncertain:These genomewide association studies have been able to examine interpatient differences in inherited genetic variability at an unprecedented level of resolution, thanks to the development of microarrays, or chips, capable of assessing more than 500,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a single sample. This "SNP-chip" technology capitalizes on a catalogue of common human genetic variations that is provided by the HapMap Project, which was made possible by the completion of the consensus human-genome sequence.......The main problem with this strategy is that, because of the high cost of SNP chips, most studies are somewhat constrained in terms of the number of samples and thus have limited power to generate P values as small as 10–7. In addition, most variants identified recently have been associated with modest relative risks (e.g., 1.3 for heterozygotes and 1.6 for homozygotes), and many true associations are not likely to exceed P values as extreme as 10–7 in an initial study. On the other hand, a "statistically significant" finding in an underpowered study is more likely to be a false positive result due to chance than is such a finding in an adequately powered study, and "statistically significant" associations could be attributable to systematic bias (e.g., from confounding due to ethnic ancestry, also known as population stratification). Thus, the sine qua non for belief in any specific result from a genomewide association study is not the strength of the P value in the initial study, but the consistency and strength of the association across one or more large-scale replication studies. Robust replication should permit the identification of true positive results and the weeding out of false positive results.In other words, take these genome studies that link intelligence and race just as about as seriously as you would take studies linking intelligence to sex, or that predict elections with brain scans.UPDATE: Best of the Web draws an important distinction:Note that "the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal" is quite different from the notion "that all races are equal." The former is a moral principle, a premise about the basic dignity of every individual; the latter is an empirical presumption about group averages in measurable traits. Someone with an IQ of 80 is as human as someone with an IQ of 120; and this is so regardless of whether the average IQ of one race is different from that of another.What worries people like those in the Times story is that racial differences in IQ or other traits seem to lend empirical support to racist theories. But those theories are qualitatively wrong, so that no empirical evidence could make them right. If all individuals are of equal dignity and worth regardless of IQ, then a group is not fundamentally superior or inferior to another group by virtue of differences in average IQ.It seems that some very smart people mistakenly think that intelligence is a measure of fundamental worth. Maybe they're a little too impressed with their own brilliance.

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