Managed Healthcare Executive August 15, 2022
You didn’t hear it here first. The role of the primary care physician (PCP) is changing — and in some vexing ways. Long gone, of course, is the all-knowing, black-bag-carrying (middle-aged White male) Marcus Welby of two generations ago. But the gatekeepers of the 1990s and early 2000s also seem to have left the building. What’s left is a beleaguered, dwindling profession facing too many patients, too much paperwork and not enough pay — or minutes in the day.
Why, then, do two leading PCPs asked about this crisis — while no Pollyannas — sound unexpectedly hopeful?
Ishani Ganguli, M.D., M.P.H., of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and co-authors sounded an alarm in an article published in...