This page contains links to various other web pages and resources. Some are medical, and some are simply of civic or social interest.
 

Links to Useful Medical Home Pages on the Web:

American Academy of Family Physicians

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

American Board of Family Medicine

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Familydoctor.org

Medscape

Medline

Quackwatch – “Doc, what do you think about….?”

WebMD

Medicare Website

 

Other Resources:

Handicapped Placards

BMI/Ideal weight (Find out if you need to lose weight with this calculator)

Menu Planner

Glucose monitoring sheets (PDF Format – Need Acrobat Reader?)

                     Glucose Pattern Sheet

                     Alternating Schedule

Cardiac Risk Calculator

Health maintenance recommendations

Immunization Schedules

Immunization guidelines (Infectious Disease - CDC)

Traveler’s Health Information (CDC)

Patient Information for Specific Conditions

 

 

 Dr. Horton’s Presentations*

*(Presentations require Power Point viewer –

to download a viewer, Click Here)

Diabetes – A brief and simple introduction to this common disease

How Antidepressants Work – A simple explanation of the concept

             behind SSRI antidepressants

 Dr. Horton's Opinion on Medical Topics

                   Allergies and allergy testing

                   Fibromyalgia

                   Herbs, vitamins, and supplements

                   High cholesterol

                   Losing Weight

                   Smoking cessation

                   Systolic hypertension

 Dr. Horton’s Published Articles

                   Spoofing Spurious Science

(Satirical editorial appearing in the November/December 2004 edition of the Family Practice Journal)

                   Open Letter to Family Practice Colleagues

(Text of editorial discussing challenges facing family practice appeared in the spring 2003 edition of The Scope, a publication of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians)

 

Some of Dr. Horton’s Favorite Non-medical Links:

American Family Association

American Family Radio – Listen Live

Focus on the Family

Grace Presbyterian Church, Fort Payne, AL (local church)

The Good Clean Funnies Page  (for a daily chuckle)

Web Cam from the Great Smoky Mountains  (nice for a quick change of perspective)

 

 

Useful Miscellaneous Links

    Web    Resources    Articles    Just for Fun  (Page Updated 7/24/2009)