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primary care
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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…
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Assessing acute care in America
The New York Times‘ Kevin Sack reports on a Health Affairs study that explores “acute medical care,” particularly initial visits…
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Why young docs shun practicing in rural America
For a look at the quotidian struggles facing young doctors who accepted federal loan aid in exchange for a three-to-five-year…
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California’s doctors: Aging, white and specialized
In California Watch’s blog, Joanna Lin breaks down the California HealthCare Foundation’s latest report on the state’s physician supply. Nationwide,…
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Mass. data show how reform could affect access
How will the masses of newly insured post-reform patients impact already tight access to primary care? The Boston Globe‘s Liz…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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Nurses push to make up for physician shortages
Kaiser Health News’ Andrew Villegas reports that the nation’s 125,000-plus nurse practitioners (and physician assistants, certified nurse midwives and dental…