Medscape July 17, 2024
Debra L. Glasser, MD

An Autobiographical Story That Affects Us All

Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in Dr Glasser’s bimonthly column in The Jolt, a non-profit online news organization based in Olympia, Washington. She was inspired to write her story after meeting Christine Laine, MD, one of three female physician presenters at the Sommer Lectures in Portland, Oregon, in May 2024. The article has been edited lightly from the original.

Primary care internal medicine — the medical field I chose, loved, and practiced for four decades — is dead.

The grief and shock I feel about this is personal and transpersonal. The loss of internists (internal medicine physicians) practicing primary care is a major loss to us all.

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