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THE FUTURE OF PRIMARY CARE Previous Volume 359:2086-2088 November 13, 2008 Number 20 Next

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The editors asked several experts to share their perspectives on the crisis in U.S. primary care. Their articles, which address this crisis from six different angles, follow. We also brought the five U.S. contributors together for a roundtable discussion of the problems and potential solutions for training, practice, compensation, and systemic change. A video of the discussion and reader comments can be seen at www.nejm.org.

"A growing chorus of discontent suggests that the once-revered doctor–patient relationship is on the rocks."

New York Times, July 29, 2008

With its combination of care for acute, undiagnosed illness and complex, multisystem disease, as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Treadway is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — both in Boston.

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