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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. In 2022, only 24.4%

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Make the Pledge Today to Go Green Get Ready for Earth Day 2025 (part 2)! Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. Let’s talk!

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FREE Physician Retreat Book

Pamela Wible MD

Chronic disillusionment doesn’t just sap your joy; it leads to chronic disease. Live Your Dream Physician Retreats (2025 Edition) captures countless conversations over my thirty-year career and nearly fifteen years leading physician retreats. Straying from your soul’s purpose will inevitably lead to a lifetime of regret.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Meanwhile, the estimated time needed to provide guideline-recommended preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care to a nationally representative panel of 2,500 adult patients is an impossible 26.7 hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Top Challenges 2025: Practice administrators face growing uncertainty

Physician's Practice

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini News Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 This year’s survey shows medical practice administrators wrestling with familiar challenges and new uncertainties. Austin Littrell June 2nd 2025 Podcast Tom Price, M.D.,

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The Physicians Foundation Continues Efforts to Tackle Chronic Disease—America’s Leading Cause of Death—by Addressing Drivers of Health

The Physicians Foundation

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health. As the U.S.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. Laudenslager, is a chronic metabolic disease with highly complex pathophysiology—”and we are programmed to regain the weight we lose with lifestyle measures.” Nor should they be.