Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative, red, blue, anti-vax, Medicare-for-all, impeachment, fake news, Bills vs. Patriots: all words that can elicit emotions and sometimes eliminate true conversations. Finding common ground and carrying on a rational conversation to look for gray areas se...
Editor's Message
From the President's Desk
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Over the past year, the ACOFP has created several new resources to help educate osteopathic family physicians, residents and students, as well as patients. In the eLearning Center, we recently posted the 2019 Intensive Update & Board Review Online videos, which provide CME opportunities and he...
Original Research
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CONTEXT: This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of patients’ understanding of homebound criteria and house call eligibility. OBJECTIVE: To date, little empirical data exists assessing patient knowledge of home health care services. This study is designed to examine patients’ u...
Review Articles
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Pseudogout or calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease is an uncommon and often under-recognized resentation in primary care. Patients may initially develop asymptomatic crystal deposition, but these changes can evolve to synovitis, arthritis, and cartilage calcification. An initi...
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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has become a major public health concern in the United States. HPV has high subclinical infection rates and is a major cause of preventable cancers (cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, penile, and oropharyngeal).1,2 Despite availability of an effective vaccine ag...
Clinical Images
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This article was originally published as a PDF. Please download the PDF to view the images. A 69-year-old Caucasian female presents to the eye clinic with a complaint of a new itchy growth on her left lower eyelid. Over the previous two weeks the irritation caused by the lesion h...
Patient Education Handout(s)
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This article was originally published and designed to be distributed as a PDF. Please download the PDF for easiest reading. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is the severe form of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Symptoms of PMDD are both physical and emotional caused by normal horm...
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This article was originally published and designed to be distributed as a PDF. Please download the PDF for easiest reading. HPV, also known as the human papilloma virus, is a sexually transmitted virus that can cause different types of cancers including cervical, oral and anal cance...