Fascinating insight over at The Physician Executive:
There are not enough primary care docs to meet the demand and they are not sufficiently well remunerated to provide the level of care it takes to keep people out of ER. They need more resources, but instead, I see resources going to retail clinics and moreover, benefiting large, profitable pharmacy conglomerates at the expense of primary care.
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Why do people continue to discuss primary care and its physicians as if they are an owned resource? They’re people; they can do what they want with their time; they don’t owe anyone anything. If someone feels differently, let them go into primary care.
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