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AAFP Foundation Strengthens Family Medicine

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By the time many of you read this, I'll be in Haiti.

Each year, the AAFP Foundation sends a delegation to this Caribbean country as part of its Family Medicine Cares International program. Twenty-two people -- including 17 family physicians -- will make this year's trip, which is scheduled for Feb. 15-22. We will be split into three teams:

The patient care team will see patients who otherwise might have a long wait to see a physician. Haiti, with a population of 9.7 million people, has less than 50 residency-trained family physicians. During last year's trip, our clinical team provided care to more than 600 patients. This included performing physical exams and providing a year's worth of vitamins to 100 orphans. We will be bringing medical equipment, medications and more with us again this year.

New this year, the Foundation is providing a scholarship for a resident to make the trip. Zita Magloire, M.D., from Wichita, Kan., will be traveling with the medical education team and will give a presentation about her experience to her peers later this year at the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.

More on that event later.

Helping people appeals to the philanthropic heart of family physicians, and few nations need help more than Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The country continues to recover from the devastating earthquake of January 2010. This will be my fourth visit, and with every visit, I can see progress as Haitians rebuild their country. The participants in our first delegation trip in February 2013, agree that this is a life-changing experience.

Although our delegation makes the trip only once a year, family physicians can work with the AAFP Foundation(www.aafpfoundation.org) to contribute at community clinics in Haiti by volunteering for one week or more to provide patient care at any time during the year.

Family Medicine Cares International is just one of the numerous programs the AAFP Foundation supports throughout the year. These efforts -- which increase the visibility and impact of family medicine -- are possible because of support from AAFP members. The work we do is only limited by the amount of support we receive.

How can you help? One way is to simply go to the Foundation's website and see what programs appeal to you(www.aafpfoundation.org). Members can make donations to a specific program, such as Family Medicine Cares International, or make an unrestricted donation to the Annual Fund.

So where does the money go?

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Traditional medicine: Environment change threatens indigenous know-how

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The way indigenous cultures around the globe use traditional medicines and pass on knowledge developed over centuries is directly linked to the natural environment, new research has found.

This makes indigenous cultures susceptible to environmental change, a threat that comes on top of the challenges posed by globalisation.

"Traditional medicine provides health care for more than half the world's population, with 80 per cent of people in developing countries relying on these practices to maintain their livelihood. It is a very important part of traditional knowledge," says Dr Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis, from The Australian National University's (ANU) Research School of Biology.

"This knowledge is typically passed down from generation to generation, or it is 'borrowed' from neighbours. Because of this borrowing, globalisation can homogenise medicinal practices of different communities, leading to loss of medicinal remedies."

But this is not the only challenge that indigenous cultures face.

"Imminent changes in the environment also pose a threat to traditional knowledge," explains Dr Saslis-Lagoudakis.

"Traditional medicine utilises plants and animals to make natural remedies. Despite a lot of these species being under threat due to ongoing climatic changes and other human effects on the environment, the effect that these changes can have on traditional medicine is not thoroughly understood."

Dr Saslis-Lagoudakis and a team of international researchers led by the University of Reading (UK) investigated how the environment shapes medicinal plant use in indigenous cultures, specifically Nepal, a country in the Himalayans that has outstanding cultural, environmental and biological diversity.

"By understanding the relationship between environment and traditional knowledge, we can then understand how cultures have responded to changes in the environment in the past," he says.

The team studied 12 ethnic groups from Nepal and recorded what plants different cultures use in traditional medicine. They calculated similarities in their medicinal floras and also calculated similarities in the floras these cultures are exposed to, how closely related they are, and their geographic separation.

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Janik traces modern medicine's roots amid 19th century outcasts

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Madison author Erika Janik's new book is "Marketplace of the Marvelous," out now in hardcover from Boston's Beacon Press. (PHOTO: Dutcher Photography) Published Feb. 13, 2014 at 9:02 a.m.

There's no doubt about it, medicine has come a long way over the past century. But, ask Wisconsin historian and author Erika Janik and she'll tell you, medicine in the 19th century wasn't all snake oil and trickery.

In fact, many of the ideas we now embrace herbal remedies, drinking a lot of water, chiropractic care, regular exercise, massage therapy were born out of 19th century practitioners who were considered outcasts in their day.

While Publisher's Weekly says Janik's "Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine," is "a must-read for medical history buffs," the book is, in fact, a fascinating and readable look into the roots of modern medicine, with some bonus ties to Wisconsin for hometown readers.

We caught up with the Madison-based Janik who is also the author of "A Short History of Wisconsin," "Odd Wisconsin" and "Madison: History of a Model City," among other works to discuss the new book, which is published in hardcover by Beacon Press.

OnMilwaukee.com: How did you come to the subject of the new book?

Erika Janik: This book really began with two things: an article from the archives of the Journal of the American Medical Association congratulating the state of Wisconsin for finally capturing the Reinhardt brothers of Milwaukee, and the unexpected discovery that my great-grandmother practiced a form of hydrotherapy, or water cure, in Chicago in the early 20th century.

I ended up co-writing an article on the Reinhardts with my husband for the "Wisconsin Magazine of History." This research led me deep into what we now call alternative medicine but what was known as "irregular" medicine in the 19th century. I discovered a world filled with quirky characters with big ideas and irregular healing practices that welcomed women as professional doctors long before they were welcomed into mainstream medicine. I love offbeat stories, utopian ideas and women in unexpected places.

OMC: Do you have any connections to medicine, other than as a user, like the rest of us?

EJ: My husband is a physician, or a regular doctor as I would call him in the book, with a deep interest in history. His input was invaluable to me even as we disagreed about certain points. His insights certainly pushed me to a deeper understanding of medicine and made me think twice about my assumptions. I think my research changed the way he thinks about his field or at least I hope so!

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