Dr. Crippen has come to terms with supermarket medicine and has accepted his fate:
There will be losses. In particularly the management of chronic disease will not be so good. The management of the dying patient will be much worse. The old fashioned family doctor ““ like me, and most of my generation ““ will be gone in ten or fifteen years. And we will be gone because most of us have refused to respond to public demand.
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Poppycock. I don’t know of any family doctors who don’t have plenty of patients. They are leaving not for lack of demand for what they sell now, but lack of payment. The market place will not be their demise but rather their salvation–if they will use it.
Maybe someone in family medicine has an answer to give physicians a leg-up. Say, MeD thru. Coming soon
Dr. MeD thru
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