The Pandemic And The Atrophy of Primary Care

Steven H Miles, MD For the first part of my medical career, I worked in intensive care units, hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. Every morning I got a note telling me which of my patients were hospitalized. I was expected to see them. I made house calls to families in crisis (although this was being suppressed and so I did this off duty). When families or patients were frightened, usually by medical instability or the imminence of death, I wrote my phone number on my business card and gave it to them.…
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