The best primary care-based research comes out of Europe, where countries have medical research budgets that actually fund primary care research. The U.S. has no equivalent funder. Therefore, American family physicians must often look overseas for answers to their daily clinical questions. Does screening for diabetes make any difference? A recent study...
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A lot of healthcare system pundits including the current leadership of the American Academy of Family Physicians feels that fee-for-service payment is the root of all healthcare waste. Obviously, I disagree. Their line of thinking is based on the existing evidence that there are too many joint replacements, cardiac stents, cardiac tests, etc., because...
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