MedPage Today November 18, 2024
Fred Pelzman

— We need to make primary care more attractive to medical students

Every day, we all get calls, emails, texts, and chats, from patients, friends, and colleagues. It seems like everyone is looking for a new primary care doctor.

Sometimes it’s because someone has moved to a new city, or they got a recommendation from a patient who has had a good experience with us. Sometimes it’s a patient asking if we can take on their family members. Sometimes it’s our specialist and subspecialist colleagues saying they have a patient they are managing who “desperately needs a good PCP” — can we help?

But more and more often, it feels like we hear that access is a major issue —...

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