Alaska AFP Provides 'Gathering Place' for Far-flung Physicians

It's fair to say that family physicians who practice in Alaska have a healthy respect for weather conditions that can isolate towns and even cities in the dead of winter. "I'm looking out my kitchen window, and the snow comes up to the base of the window," says John Cullen, M.D., president of the Alaska AFP, describing the scene outside his window in a phone interview with . "But given that my kitchen is on the second story, you can just imagine how much snow is out there," says the Phoenix native, who came to Alaska for the third year of his family medicine residency training and never left.