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What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care
David Loxterkamp
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Description for What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care
Hardcover. An honest and insightful reflection on lessons learned about primary care from a life as a small town doctor Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of their lives. Yet how much is really known about primary care? What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care is a look at the past, present, and future of general practice, which is not only the predecessor to the modern primary care movement, but its foundation.
Through memoir and ... Read more
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of their lives. Yet how much is really known about primary care? What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care is a look at the past, present, and future of general practice, which is not only the predecessor to the modern primary care movement, but its foundation.
Through memoir and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118656
SKU
V9780472118656
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About David Loxterkamp
David Loxterkamp, MD, has been a family practice physician in Belfast, Maine, for more than 30 years. He is a noted expert on family practice and speaks widely on medical policy and the crisis in primary care delivery. He is the author of A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University Press of New England, 1997). ... Read more
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