Up to 1 in 20 patients would like to kill their primary care physicians

June 19, 2008

As if being a PCP isn’t difficult enough: “The typical primary care physician with a patient load of 3,000 souls can assume that at least 60 of these individuals (up to 150, if he/she treats a lot of patients with pain or disability) would not only like to see them dead, but would be pleased to be the instrument of their demise.”



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