Big Doctoring in America
Profiles in Primary Care
Chapter One
Primary Care Roots
Big Doctoring is about a way of medical life, an approach to health care
and healing, a skill set, and a mind set that is called primary care. It
is about doctoring that is humanist, comprehensive, efficient, and
flexible, doctoring that builds on the legacy of the past and the rich
tradition of care in medicine and nursing. To that it adds the science and
technology of the contemporary world, applied in a measured,
evidenced-based, and coordinated fashion. In our current culture of
medical care-noteworthy for its sophistication of technology, its
inexorable cost increases, the absence of uniform access to its benefits,
a high rate of medical errors, and the uncertainty of many
outcomes-primary care provides a foundation for health care that blends
good science with good judgment.
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