The Medical Intellectual

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Showing posts with label Primary Care. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Primary Care. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2014

The Lost Glory Days of General Practice, and a Vision of it's Resurrection

I'm on my family medicine rotation right now. One of my preceptors is ~80 years old, and went through medical school in the 1960s. He...

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Work For You

Many doctors are ambivalent about the Affordable Care Act. This is not due to the primary aims of the bill- after all, more people with he...

Monday, February 3, 2014

Why I'm (Probably) Not Going Into Primary Care

I have to say when I was applying to medical school originally I was interested in primary care. One of my role models was my aunt, a PCP,...

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Why More Pay (Probably) Won't Create More Primary Care Physicians

There have been many, many calls recently to increase Primacy Care Physician(PCP) pay, and decrease that of Specialists. I'll link to ...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Primary Care vs. Specialist Pay, the RUC, and the News.

The Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) of the American Medical Association (AMA) is back in the news , courtesy of the New York Ti...

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