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Out of practice : fighting for primary care medicine in America / Frederick M. Barken.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Ithaca [N.Y. : ILR Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801461088
  • 9780801460609
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R729 .O986 2011
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Contents:
A first visit with the doctor -- Tell him not to drive -- Polypharmacy: the problem with pills -- Poly-doctoring: a doctor for every disease -- A bubble off -- On the road again -- The supply side -- All in the family -- Practice/malpractice -- You get what you pay for.
Subject: The author uses his own experiences as a primary care physician to describe the state of his profession and argues that the health care system will collapse without a strong physician-patient relationship and that the role of the primary care physician must change to survive.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: the doctor is out -- A first visit with the doctor -- Tell him not to drive -- Polypharmacy: the problem with pills -- Poly-doctoring: a doctor for every disease -- A bubble off -- On the road again -- The supply side -- All in the family -- Practice/malpractice -- You get what you pay for.

The author uses his own experiences as a primary care physician to describe the state of his profession and argues that the health care system will collapse without a strong physician-patient relationship and that the role of the primary care physician must change to survive.

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