Comments on: How poor physician communication leads to medical mistakes http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-poor-physician-communication-leads.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: drbobbs http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-poor-physician-communication-leads.html/comment-page-1#comment-88240 drbobbs Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-poor-physician-communication-leads-to-medical-mistakes.html#comment-88240 "The whole issue is another byproduct of emergency department crowding." Which is itself a byproduct of there being far too few primary care physicians. Many of these ER visits could be taken care of in a family medicine or internal medicine office. Or the conditions would not have progressed to the point that they require the services of an ER doc.<br/><br/>But we didn't (and still don't) want to pay primary care physicians enough money to attract med students to pursue that sort of career.<br/><br/>The chickens have come home to roost. “The whole issue is another byproduct of emergency department crowding.” Which is itself a byproduct of there being far too few primary care physicians. Many of these ER visits could be taken care of in a family medicine or internal medicine office. Or the conditions would not have progressed to the point that they require the services of an ER doc.

But we didn’t (and still don’t) want to pay primary care physicians enough money to attract med students to pursue that sort of career.

The chickens have come home to roost.

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