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primary care
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‘No one can see you now’: Primary care in crisis amid physician shortage, underfunding
A new report shows that a physician shortage and lack of investment in primary care has caused Americans’ average life…
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Finding stories in the looming primary care shortage
One recent workday, I called my primary care physician’s office and immediately was transferred to voicemail. Usually, I’m perhaps the…
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Health care reform may be helping close the pay gap for primary care providers
We don’t usually post two consecutive items by the same health care reporter on different topics. But when I was…
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What a reporter learned following primary care residents
We’ve posted a new tip sheet and a new “How I did it” piece that may yield some story ideas…
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DC journalists dig into secrets behind AMA’s physician payment committee
A secretive committee of the American Medical Association exaggerates how much physician time and effort is involved in performing many…
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Panelists discuss future of rural primary care at Rural Health Journalism 2014
Rural areas have a disproportionate need for primary care physicians but, according to a panel of physicians at Rural Health Journalism…
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Future of primary care: Who will take care of you?
The list of problems with primary care today is long and long-standing. Patients are frustrated and confused. Providers feel pressure…
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Panel of primary-care providers at Health Journalism 2013 #ahcj13
If you’re looking for a thrilling health care story, the local primary care practice is probably not the first place…
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Rural health care in Calif. nearing ‘crisis’
In a collaboration between the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Francisco Chronicle, the center’s David…
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How will aging doctors affect your community?
AHCJ member Ryan Sabalow, a reporter at the Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight, recently looked at the age of doctors in…