Posted on November 4, 2008 by pookiemd
All right, pencils out, notebooks at the ready! Quiz to follow! Here is Part II of Resuscitating Primary Care. At our last session, we noted the primary care was indeed a “code-blue/COR-0″. As promised, I will apply my laser sharp focus to “fixing” this problem.
Buckle up!
You are a shrink. This is another unavoidable issue. [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by pookiemd
As promised, I will turn my laser like focus to the task of “fixing” primary care. I will examine both micro and macro ways of doing this, coming up with to do lists that physicians can implement in their practices as well as global suggestions that will take shifts in health care policy. (Which only we [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2008 by pookiemd
I have been in practice for 15 years, and most of my colleagues hate primary care. (Remember, I come from a cohort of internists, the ones that should be the defenders primary care!) In my rovings as the ExtraMD I still do some primary care, to keep me honest, and to remind me how hard [...]
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