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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barken, Frederick M

Titel

Out of Practice: Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and medical students steer clear in order to pursue more lucrative specialties. Patients feel helpless, well aware that they are losing a valued close connection as health care steadily becomes more transactional than relational. The thin-margin efficiency, rapid pace, and high volume demanded by the new health care economics do not work for primary care, an inherently slower, more personal, and uniquely tailored service. This author of this volume juxtaposes his personal experience with the latest research on the transformations in the medical field, offering a critique of the "market model of medicine" while seeking to illustrate how the seemingly inexorable trend toward specialization in the last few decades has shifted emphasis away from what was once the foundation of medical practice. References.