Torpedoing Primary Care

For the last few years the future of primary care has been looking bleak.  Fewer and fewer medical students are choosing primary care careers, just as baby-boomers retire and will need more care.  Primary care physicians meanwhile are retiring early or cutting back their practices at record numbers, worsening the coming shortage. The current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine publishes a perspective article by Dr. David Norenberg that heaps on the gloom.  Describing himself as cl...
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