Effective Primary Care by the Subspecialty Center
- 18 September 1975
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 293 (12) , 607-609
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197509182931211
Abstract
Delivery of health care has not advanced as rapidly as medical knowledge and technology. Consequently, both physicians and patients have become discontent with current health-care delivery systems. Dissatisfaction with present systems has led many medical educators and legislators to urge revival of an older system that worked well for many years — that of the family physician. Primary patient care is the critical service that the family physician provides but that large groups of physicians in huge medical centers often fail to give.Primary patient care involves establishing an enduring one-to-one relation between a physician and his patient, the physician . . .Keywords
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