Primary care from a med student perspective

This is how US primary care is seen by many medical students. It’s sad to say that they’re not too far from the truth:

The climate for primary care doctors, in as much as this medstudent can understand, seems fraught with patients wanting tests or specialists. Unfortunately the idea that a primary care doctor can control a lot of problems *without* extensive testing or referrals is becoming foreign to younger patients.

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