Practice under pressure : primary care physicians and their medicine in the twenty-first century /

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Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first centuryùtheir work, stresses...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoff, Timothy, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
Primary care (Medicine) > United States.
Health care reform.
Primary Health Care > trends
Health Care Reform
Physicians, Family > trends
Soins de santé primaires > États-Unis.
Services de santé > Réforme.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
Primary care (Medicine)
United States
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The transformation of primary care in the United States
  • A typical workday in primary care
  • How the primary care workday has changed
  • Leaving hospital work behind
  • The routine and nonroutine of primary care work
  • Younger and older physicians in primary care
  • Women in primary care
  • International medical graduates in primary care
  • The medical home : primary care savior?
  • No quick fix : an incremental approach to helping primary care.

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