Primary Care Shortage, a Brief History and Current Trends (NCBI)

By Editor, Concierge Medicine Today on May 1, 2024

Author/Credits, National Academies Press (US); 2021 May 4.

For the first two-thirds of the 20th century, the lone general practitioner served as the face of primary care in the United States. However, primary care was a shrinking presence with the rise of subspecialty care and urbanization following World War II (Stevens, 2001). Three commissioned reports on the challenges facing …

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