MedPage Today August 12, 2024
— Let us handle the garden-variety hypertension and diabetes, and give them the complex cases
In today’s modern world, where does primary care fit in?
Especially at large academic medical centers like ours, the focus across the institution tends to be on secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care. This is the stuff that makes headlines; this is the stuff that attracts philanthropy; this is the stuff that marketing departments lock onto and love to generate stories about.
But even a large hospital that focuses on high-end care, on advanced imaging, providing specialized surgeries, and offering the latest experimental protocols and the most cutting-edge medicine, the patients have to come from somewhere — and they have to go somewhere when they’re done.
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