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NEWS ABOUT: primary care

primary care stories: 5 news summaries

 Firefighters Play 
 ER Docs to 
 Uninsured 

Medical calls have more than doubled since 1980

Sep 4, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Operating in a poor area where many lack health insurance, a DC firehouse battles far more than just flames: Some 80% of its calls are for medical emergencies. Because it is believed to respond fastest, Washington’s fire department zooms to almost all the city’s emergency calls alongside EMS,... More »

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health care • health insurance • firefighters • primary care • emergency responders • Washington, DC • ambulance

US Has Huge Shortage of Primary Care Docs

Health care reform efforts may suffer

Jun 20, 09 2:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress may be unable to agree on the details of an overhauled health care system, but there’s one fact on which there’s little debate: America urgently needs more primary care doctors. Experts predict the nationwide shortage of family physicians will reach 40,000 within the next decade, a... More »

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shortage • health care reform • primary care • doctors

 Doctor Shortage 
 Could Hurt Obama 
 Health Care Plans 

More primary care physicians are needed to serve aging population, uninsured

Apr 27, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's ambitious plants to expand health care for millions of currently uninsured Americans while simultaneously meeting the needs of aging boomers, may be stymied not only by politics-as-usual but a shortage of primary care physicians, the New York Times reports. Officials are weighing several options, including increasing Medicare payments... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • universal health care • National Health Service • shortage • health care reform • primary care

Fewer Medical Students Considering Primary Care

Shortage of family doctors looms: study

Sep 10, 08 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just 2% of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care, forecasting a shortage of doctors who coordinate care and keep costs low, the AP reports. And it’s not just higher pay luring them away: They fear the paperwork and increased workload. Primary-care doctors must “... More »

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education • JAMA • Dartmouth • primary care • medical schools • orthopaedic surgery

Clinics Test Prepaid
Health Plans

Flat-rate programs aim to take up slack for uninsured, underinsured

Oct 22, 07 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Primary care is increasingly out of reach for patients and unprofitable for physicians, but a prepaid plan at a walk-in clinic could provide a solution, one doctor says. Vic Wood charges a monthly fee for basic and urgent care, allowing his practice to stay afloat and his uninsured patients to... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • health care industry • doctor • health care reform • primary care

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