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Primary care for all Americans

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These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all. This isn't only because too few medical students are choosing primary care residency programs ; it also reflects generalist physicians leaving practice prematurely due to burnout.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

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Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. Travel to the doctor’s office. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”