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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

We are being crushed by mandated screenings for everything from obesity to domestic abuse ( see my post “ Brief is Good ”). And, as the NEJM article points out, there are no financial incentives to have nurses or other non-providers manage routine problems like hypertension in our current system.

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