Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensive primary care is the foundation of an effective healthcare system but has been on the decline as more family physicians pursue careers in focused practice. From 1993 to 2022, the proportion of comprehensive primary care physicians decreased from 71.1% in 1993/1994, dropping to a low of 15.0%

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Primary Care Physician Family Families 130

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. How long ago?

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. And I was an internal medicine resident.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105