Primary-care medicine needs more physicians like Jim Levine, but he is being forced out by the intolerable demands of managed care (Devin Friedman, May 5).
They remind me every day why we need more physician-scientists who can identify important and frustrating clinical questions, find creative solutions in the laboratory, and ultimately improve patient care by bridging science and medicine.
Because such services are often needed more frequently than physician visits, we would expect the effects of insurance to have a more dramatic effect on these services.
However non-physicians reportedly gained maximum benefit from the individual feedback received during 11-day training, and non-physician shorter course trainees tended to rate themselves as less skilled post-training compared with non-physician 11-day course trainees, suggesting that non-physicians needed more time for training or less course content.
Especially with an aging population, old-fashioned family physicians are needed more than neurosurgeons.
Most physicians stated they needed more knowledge and skills in handling sickness certification, e.g. regarding how to assess work capacity (44%) and optimal length and degree of sickness absence (50%), and information about aspects of the social insurance system 43-633%).
With increasing numbers of uninsured and enduring health disparities [ 11], the US needs more dedicated physicians interested in ending health inequities.
In an editorial published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, physicians at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute had questioned whether the drug needed more study before it was sold.
Second, NCDs are not easily curable and need more frequent physician visits.
This result which is consistent with prior evaluations of leadership development interventions for IM faculty is important because many healthcare systems desperately need more qualified physician leaders and managers who are interested in assuming formal leadership and management roles [ 1, 8, 41, 45].
