KevinMD January 25, 2023
Michael Fine, MD

An excerpt from On Medicine as Colonialism.

For about seventeen years, from 1991 until 2008, I lived in little Scituate, Rhode Island, where I practiced family medicine, and for about eleven of those seventeen years, I practiced out of the basement of my house. It was an older style of primary care, a style that started to die out by the 1960s and was almost completely gone by 2000. Once upon a time, when we had local banks that lent money to local people who wanted to buy a house or a business, when we had local pharmacies that might open at night to dispense a prescription to someone seriously ill, when we had local newsstands and local newspapers, we...

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