Medical Economics September 28, 2023
Primary care medicine has undergone enormous changes in the past century.
From insulin to remote blood pressure monitors, today’s family practitioner or general internist has medications and diagnostic tools at their disposal undreamed of a century ago. With a few clicks on a keyboard, today’s doctors can find information about a disease or condition that would have required hours of library research in 1923. And advances in remote monitoring devices enable today’s doctors to track patients’ vital signs virtually.
Equally important are the changes in how primary care medicine is practiced and the primary care doctor’s role in the health care system. These changes were summarized in a 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on the...
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