Prescription for Shortage of Primary Care Is Greater Respect?, Rewards
New Haven Register › June 07, 2010
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www.davidkatzmd.com In an age of highly specialized medicine, primary care is vulnerable to the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome of getting no respect. That's a mistake, perhaps best demonstrated by what can happen when primary care isn't provided.
Some years ago, I was practicing primary care internal medicine and saw a medical student for an acute visit because of worsening back pain.See the full content of this document
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Prescription for Shortage of Primary Care Is Greater Respect?, Rewards
When their son's pain first developed, his parents -- both physicians -- took matters into their own hands. They arranged for their son to bypass humble primary care and get right to the specialist, in this case, an orthopedist.
I don't recall off-hand the detail...See the full content of this document
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