Dear Colleague,

As a primary care physician you likely face many of the same challenges that I do. The press of clinical practice, family obligations and day-to-day life in our fast-paced world seem to leave little time for much else.

Yet, we have an obligation to our patients to provide them with the best care possible and this requires that we stay up-to-date in our field. This is no easy task. There is probably no other field in medicine that is evolving faster and is as broad in its scope as Primary Care and, because this specialty embraces parts of virtually all the others, it is clearly not adequate to simply subscribe to the primary care journals if we truly want to stay current.

Every month key articles that are vitally important to the practice of Primary Care are published in literally hundreds of other major journals -- the most important articles on prostate cancer screening are in the Urology journals -- the latest information on pediatric fever is in the Pediatric journals, and the most current information on the use of the statins is in the Cardiology journals.

Bottom line -- the very nature of Primary Care requires that we survey literally hundreds of journals if we really want to stay up-to-date in this broad-based specialty.

In 1992, Primary Care Medical Abstracts was founded specifically to meet the unique informational needs of front-line Primary Care physicians and now, more than 18 years later, we remain committed to providing our subscribers with information and commentary in the field.

Make no mistake about it, others have tried to emulate us over the years; however, we are absolutely convinced that, on an objective, dispassionate analysis of any other similar service, Primary Care Medical Abstracts will be found to provide its subscribers with the highest quality, most comprehensive, cost-effective service of its kind.

We take great pride in the quality of our product; however, we ask that you be the ultimate judge. Please take us up on our "No-Risk" offer. We are confident you will come to trust and depend on PCMA just as many of your colleagues now do.