Politicians are wisely acknowledging that primary care doctors need to be paid more.
But will that be enough? DrRich, who’s practiced on both sides of the specialist and generalist fence, notes that the “litany of professional travesties has been visited upon the primary care doctors far more than upon the specialists,” and that “merely increasing the pay of PCPs would override all these other considerations” is absurd.
He points out that generalists have an ace in the hole that specialists don’t, which is the ability to walk away and practice cash-only retainer medicine.
topics: primary care, specialist
