MedPage Today September 22, 2025
— If primary care doctors’ work was valued more highly, many chronic illnesses could be avoided
The old saying about an ounce of prevention should still hold true today.
While I don’t begrudge the complexity of the work done by specialists and subspecialists, or the operations performed by our surgical colleagues, the benefits of primary care seem to argue for making a greater investment in this across our country.
In these uncertain times, as public health and science and healthcare in general are threatened in so many ways, it would seem that investing in prevention and chronic disease management and equitable access to care really would, should, and could be the way to go.
Think of a world in which,...
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