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American Health Care Depends on Rebuilding and Mobilizing Full Primary Care Team
Last week was National Primary Care Week and Primary Care Progress (PCP)’s co-founder and president calls all members of the primary care community to come together as a team both to deliver primary care and to advocate for it. Last week was National Primary Care Week, an annual celebration when members of the primary care [...]
Hope is On the Way for Primary Care Practice
At a March 12 conference sponsored by the ABIM Foundation, we heard descriptions on how primary care can and should be improved to: enhance the patient experience; improve quality and bring joy back into practice.
Attracting Physicians to Primary Care
In 2010, David Reuben wrote that if primary care was to be once again an attractive specialty to pursue, simply increasing the reimbursement levels would not be enough. Rather, the working conditions and job content would also have to change. A strong primary care workforce is crucial to improving the quality of care in this [...]
Part-Time Women
In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, Dr. Karen S. Sibert opines that female physicians working part-time are contributing to a physician shortage and are “not making full use of their training” and the societal resources invested in medical education and residency. She also has the following message for current and aspiring female [...]
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