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Ross L. Fisher is an internal medicine physician.

Once a pillar, now in ruins: the state of primary care

Ross L. Fisher, MD
Physician
May 14, 2024

Primary care outpatient general internal medicine is dead. Following a lengthy decline over years of languishing, it finally succumbed to terminal underappreciation and fiscal neglect. We shall never see the likes of it again. As with most good things taken for granted, it won’t be missed until it is far too late and the extinction is complete.

Our current health care system has morphed into a bloated bureaucracy that has lost …

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Once a pillar, now in ruins: the state of primary care

A primary care physician at his peak is forced into early retirement

Ross L. Fisher, MD
Physician
January 6, 2020

Time is of the essence.  The very utterance of this phrase connotates a sense of urgency for an impending crisis or adversity if some essential action is not taken. I find myself most unexpectedly at this crucial junction. I am a seasoned, experienced general internal medicine physician, trained traditionally in hospital medicine, and subsequently evolved into outpatient care of comorbid complex chronic disease management. From everything I read and hear …

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A primary care physician at his peak is forced into early retirement

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