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

The Physicians Foundation

North Dakota has the highest percentage of new physicians entering primary care, at 46.6%, double the national average. With chronic diseases on the rise, primary care has never been more essential to the health of our nation,” said Ripley Hollister, MD, board member of The Physicians Foundation and a practicing family physician.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I’m a family physician by training. So I became the group pack coordinator and then the physician in charge of my medical office and Mission Viejo. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors. Couldn’t imagine doing anything else.