Just about every U.S. medical student who’s ever said they want to go into family medicine, or even other primary care fields, has heard this (or something like it): “Why do you want to waste your brain?” A new study shows what we in family medicine have always known/suspected. The comments...
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I’ve read several articles recently reporting on a shortage of geriatricians. The writers have some clear misunderstandings of who actually cares for our elderly and where they come from. Susan Jaffe writing for Kaiser Health News stated that the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) estimates that the nation will require 30,000 geriatricians...
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This post is the 3rd in a series discussing our findings in a recently published study on the ways family physicians deliver better care at a lower cost than a multi-ologist model. Family physicians told us they are more comfortable with uncertainty than the ologists. For a little history, the Future...
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